Quotes About Acceptance

C'est sa grande recette de créativité. Par tolérance, il signifie que les idées différentes et les gens différents méritent d'être entendus. Plus on est ouvert aux individus qui sortent de la norme, ou simplement aux minorités, plus on est réceptif aux pensées nouvelles.

Who knows, perhaps the will to please leads people to crime as often as evil or greed does. People want to fit in and do well, and they do indescribably stupid things

People want to fit in and do well, and they do indescribably stupid things because of it.

Oamenii vor s? fie accepta?i, s? fie competen?i ?i ajung s? fac? prostii inimaginabile din cauza asta.

Of course! That was it! I didn't need a tattoo. What I needed was something a lot less expensive and considerably less painful. What I needed was a Playboy. Guys who are gay do not keep Playboy magazines in their bedrooms.

Rachel's mother slipped her arm around his waist. "Steven was just telling us about being gay, Fred." Rachel's father smiled and reached down to shake my hand. "Way to go, Steven. Just remember, safe sex, safe sex, safe sex.

No you are not. You are much too young to be gay.

It's one thing to refuse an invitation," Aaron said, "another to be told you'll never get one.

Oh, el anhelo payasesco de quienes no han sido amados tal cual son!

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.

I don't know... the weight of it, I guess. At some point, it becomes bearable. It turns into something that you can crawl out from under and... carry around like a brick in your pocket. And you... you even forget it, for a while. But then you reach in for whatever reason and - there it is. Oh right, that. Which could be aweful - not all the time. It's kinda...

Needless to say, it was inconceivable that I would be welome in, let alone invited to, their home. It was as well, then, that I did not limit myself only to those places where people might wish me to be.

Mark a hen's comb with an oddly colored spot, or tie it so it hangs in a peculiar direction, and her former flock mates will attack her mercilessly. Jane Goodall, who was the first scientist to observe chimpanzees up close and personal in the wild, noticed that crippled chimpanzees were rejected and attacked by apes that were previously on friendly terms with them.

I feel surpris'd at my own composure," he noted, "and am more disposed to impute it to despair than resignation.

Strange, isn't it, how one can always learn to love oneself, however ghastly one is?

In accepting my lot, I also came to understand that suffering was universal, and that there wasn't anyone who was without pain of some kind; the difference between other people's suffering and mine was merely one of degree.

I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally become… This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.

The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.

It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.