Quotes About Acceptance

It's mostly during times of wilderness experience, that people are willing to accept the lessonsthat wisdom teaches

I wish for you the wisdom to realize that forgiveness has nothing to do with an apology.

It's taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything.

You never turn away family, no matter how f***ed up they are.

If you cannot change your circumstances, then change your attitude.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.

The air is the only place free from prejudices.

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

Women with whiskers... its a bummer.

The greatest threat to women (and by extension humanity) is the growth and acceptance of a misogynistic, authoritarian, and violent culture of militarism.

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.