Quotes About Acceptance

It doesn't matter if you love the people society says you shouldn't love or do or don't have children with more than one of them; it doesn't matter if you have money, go to church, or obey the law; what matters is that you're not cruel or wasteful, that you don't keep the truth from those who need it, suppress someone's will or talent, take more than you need from nature, or fail to use your own talent and will.

Your problem is that you should like yourself better." Of course, he was right—but how could she like herself when she felt she had no self ?

Men can be just as loving and nurturing as women-- it's a libel on men to say they can't-- but we all learn by example. Boys just need nurturing men in their lives so they know it's okay for them to be nurturing.

But for women especially, bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without those visual references, however, each individual woman's body can be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

We learn from difference, not from sameness.

a crucial purpose of birth families is to make sure we know, value, and even love people we don't agree with.

In thirty years or so, the majority will no longer be European Americans; the first generation of mostly babies of color has already been born. This new diversity will give us a better understanding of the world and enrich our cultural choices, yet there are people whose sense of identity depends on the old hierarchy.

ANYBODY CAN BE WITH YOU when you're right, but only friends are with you when you mess up. Many

Learning to accept and even love difference, as she pointed out, is important for the future of the human race. There is great comfort in realizing that differences within a family have an important purpose.

He took comfort in not knowing about the future.

People want to come home to the church of their childhood without having to leave their adult selves behind.

Having lived his life in the belief that something great could be just around every corner, did he realize for the first time that no more corners could be turned? p.18

Soon we discovered the intensity of interest in the simple idea that each person's shared humanity and individual uniqueness far outweighed any label by group of birth, whether sex, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, religious heritage, or anything else.

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong-to belong to my mother. And in return-I wanted my mother to belong to me.

I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn't find my way into their world. They seemed to have a secret code I couldn't decipher.

I knew then that Grandfather had forgiven me and that I would have a home, but something inside me was sorry that once again I would lose Rachel Sheridan.

without a deep understanding that our significance comes from being loved and accepted by God exactly as we are, upside-down priorities will dominate our lives.

I'm learning that I don't have to prove myself. And despite my superwoman complex, which got me into all kinds of situations, I'm not able to do all things.

Sometimes our lives change drastically but we refuse to accept the change. We soldier on as if nothing has changed and get further and further behind. We believe we should be able to manage it all because we used to before the change happened.

Don 't expect your life to change if you hate change.

There is no external condition we have to meet to realize our aspirations. We just need to be what we are.

Those in the direst need of the medication resist it the most.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.