Quotes About Acceptance

How can something bother you if you won't let it?

The plane landed, and I had a moment to sit with Steve on my own. It was a bit of an effort to clamber up into the back of the plane. A simple wooden casket rested inside, still secured. I knew that who Steve was, his spirit and his soul, were no longer there, but it was strange how I couldn't cry. I sat down and leaned my head against the wooden box that held his body and felt such strange peace. In some way, we were together again.

From the very first, I was welcomed into the Irwin family. The greatest thing was that I felt Lyn and Bob loved me not just because I was married to Steve, but for myself, for who I was. That gave me confidence to feel at home as a new arrival to Australia.

I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give em? Humor. And if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot 's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Don't hide behind a limitation in the way you look. Use it to shout to the world that you love life.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

Fate does not seek our consent.

Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye.

Don't you see, hon, this is all beyond us. When things are out of your control, it's time to just sit back and watch the Lord at work.

modern practice that has become politically and socially recognized and accepted is transgenderism, something even the ancient pagans understood was not possible. This is much more than a person wishing to be a crossdresser or transvestite. These people physically alter their bodies via surgery and hormone treatment in their attempts to change their gender, though the word "alter" better describes their efforts than "change.

Because of the Blood, God totally accepts me. He has great plans for me and He is pleased with me." That is what God's Word says about you. It's God-talk, and you need to make it yours.

I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.

At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.

I don't care if he never becomes my boyfriend or my husband, i just want him to be legitimate.

I give everyone a chance to prove themselves before I dismiss them.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

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I try not to spend too much time worrying about how "hard" my life is. Of course, it's kind of difficult not to think about it at least part of the time. What else is there for me to do? For the most part, though, I just live and try not to bitch to myself too much about the bad-news stuff of my life. Bitching doesn't change anything.