Quotes About Acceptance

It's okay if you fall apart sometimes. Tacos fall apart and we still love them.

She had a slender, small body, but a large heart — a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

Mamas everywhere — don't worry so much about being a "hot mom." A child needs a role model, not a supermodel. You will always shine by simply being your best, doing your best, and radiating the magical love that only a mama can.

I have never seen a wildflower in all its beauty be ashamed of where it grows.

We are a part of everything real and natural, and therefore they are a part of us. If we don't fight them, but let them flow through us, they will never bother us, only enrich us. It is such a simple principle that most of us miss it. But by missing it, we miss most of what life is all about.

Over time, the hurt doesn't hurt — only regret does.

All it takes is an apostrophe and a bit of an attitude adjustment to go from "impatient" to "I'm patient."

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in...

No man that lives can satisfy everybody. The recipe for perfect peace is, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

God always answers our prayers, but sometimes the answer is no.

Some knees bend only under the load of a heavy heart; some eyes are opened only after the head is bowed.

Racism & Gender Discrimination. — One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

Life's Unpredictability. — Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

We are each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, the smart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese. It is natural to develop prejudices. It is noble to rise above them.

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being — that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.

Everyone has that one thing that's totally illogical, which if you really want to love that person, you've just got to accept.

Merry Christmas v. Happy Holidays... Why be exclusive when you can be inclusive?

One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked.

No more be grieved at that which thou hast done: Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud...

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables — the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers — to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

A scar is a prayer of gratitude for that which remains.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough; and when you have enough, you have self-respect.

The Summer's gone, — how did it go?