Quotes About Acceptance

You can hold on to the smallest doubt and take comfort in it, stay in denial and go on with your carefree life, until one day you're finally cornered by a truth that can no longer be ignored.

There's a big difference between not knowing the truth and not liking it.

You don't have to move past it, but you do have to move through it.

God has accepted your repentance. He gives his forgiveness freely.

I believed that was the point of real forgiveness: It was freely given. Grace-filled. Unsolicited.

Someone once told me that everyone deserved to be loved. Even the unlovable? Maybe especially them.

whenever we're offered love, we should accept it. Wherever we encounter tenderness, we should embrace it.

grief is the hardest cross to bear.

By contrast to the above views, people with self-esteem believe they are neither more or less than human. Knowing their faults and rough edges, they still are deeply and quietly glad to be who they are (Briggs 1977). They are like the good friend who knows you well and likes you anyway because they recognize the goodness, excellence, and potential that coexist alongside imperfections.

person who needs to control his life will eventually lose control of it. But those who can give up control of their lives, allowing me to guide and direct them, will enjoy the fullest life possible.

It is never too late for a little happiness even in the shadow of death;

Helianos wanted to accept everything as it appeared on the surface; at least to interpret everything as favorably as he could, as mere kindliness, a wonderful improvement and a great blessing.

But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

The right woman is the one you can live with, not the one in your head.

Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.

Like they say, it takes all types to make the world. But sometimes you wish it didn't.

Ain't nothing to be shamed of. Having a baby is the most natural thing there is. The Good Book call children a gift from the Lord. And there ain't no place in that Bible of His that say babies is sinful. The sin is the fornicatin', and that's over and done with. God done forgave you of that a long time ago, and what's going on in your belly now ain't nothin' to hang your head about--you remember that.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."