Quotes About Acceptance

Enid thought everybody was like her, they just didn't know it yet. And that someday they would come around, realizing what fools they'd always been by clinging to ideals that got them nowhere. Enid

But the decay was there, deep and bitter. There was no getting rid of it. She would never be happy again. There might be moments. Small rewards that brought pleasure, but true happiness seemed forever beyond her grasp. And maybe deep down she knew it.

For the first time in years, she felt a sense of belonging, of amazing lightness. She

You may not know it, but then again, maybe you do, but your sister is a prostitute." "And that makes a difference?" He looked at her in a speculative way, as if he wondered what she did for a living. "My sister is a person. She deserves the same attention you would give anybody.

Someone once told her she was ever-morphing. That wasn't it at all. She revealed too much. And most people, she'd come to realize, didn't want that much reality. Maddie

Time didn't heal all wounds. I think time tricked people into thinking they were okay.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.

Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is not wrong—inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes, our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are already present.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.

Feeling guilty does not set us free. Being equipped sets us free.

Even if the church began to grow on its own, the members of the dying church would only accept the growth if the new members were like them and if the church would continue to "do church" the way they wanted it.

Is it possible to create an environment where people are welcomed and accepted…no matter what they look like? No matter what they say? No matter what they believe? Is it possible for church to be the place where the average person can walk in off the street, warts and all, and be fully embraced? Is it possible for the church to become known as the least judgmental place Americans know?

There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us.

I'll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

He is not truly patient who will only suffer as far as seems right to him and from whom he pleases. The truly patient man considers not by whom he is tried, one above him, or by an equal, or by an inferior, whether by a good and holy man or by a perverse and unworthy, but from every creature. He gratefully accepts all from the hand of God and counts it gain.