Quotes About Acceptance

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

Tony Blair's response when asked by one of his Parliament members why he believes so much in America: "A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.

Keed, ya ever feel like you were in the circus?" But before Grant could answer, he was startled by Babe's next words. "I do. All the time. It's the circus, and I'm one of the freaks.

These are God's thoughts and intentions toward us. He is for us, not against us. None of these letters begin with "Shame, Guilt, and Condemnation to you" because that is not God's heart toward us, grace is.

Bueno —dijo Mallory, tirando de un hilo suelto en el dobladillo de su jersey—, seguramente es mejor así. —No, ni mucho menos —replicó Jared—. Hasta tú deberías darte cuenta de eso. ¡No podemos devolver lo que no tenemos! Los monstruos no creyeron a tía Lucinda cuando les dijo que no tenía el libro. ¿Por qué iban a creernos a nosotros?.

Even the most wicked have a family that loves them.

Don't say we're not right for each other because the way I see it, we might not be right for anyone else...

Weeping for the dead's a waste of breath - they're lucky, they can't die again.

Or, at least, he wasn't sure she was willing to marry Jim Chee as he currently existed—a just-plain cop and a genuine sheep-camp Navajo as opposed to the more romantic and politically correct Indigenous Person.

You weren't listening. I asked you why you decided to quit." Leaphorn had said nothing for a while. "Just tired." Thatcher had shaken his head. "You're going to miss it." "No, you get older. Or wiser. You realize it doesn't really make any difference.

do yourself a huge favor: Ditch the fear. Hate less and explore more

Do your best" means showing up and doing your best without being attached to the outcome. It means reality is not something you can manipulate. "Forget the rest" means you don't let the same things that used to get in your way, get in your way.

Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.

Loss is loss, and nothing is gained by calling it by a nicer name.

I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

When your heart breaks, you should die. But there's still the rest of you. There's your breasts, and your genitals, and they're amazingly stupid, like babies or faithful dogs, they don't get it, they just want him. Want him.

It can be very hard to accept how disappointing life is, Harper, because that's what it is, and you have to accept it. With faith and time and hard work you reach a point where ... where the disappointment doesn't hurt as much, and then it gets easy to live with. Quite easy. Which ... is in its own way a disappointment.

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

And if he had returned mutilated, ugly, full of infection and horror, she would still have loved him; fed by pity, by a sharing of pain, she would love him even more, and even more, and she would never, never have prayed to God, please let him die if he can't return to me whole and healthy and able to live a normal life . . . If he had died, she would have buried her heart with him.      So what the fuck is the matter with me?

HANNAH: It can be very hard to accept how disappointing life is, Harper, because that's what it is, and you have to accept it. With faith and time and hard work you reach a point where . . . where the disappointment doesn't hurt as much, and then it gets easy to live with. Quite easy. Which . . . is in its own way a disappointment. But.      There.

ROY (Fierce): I hurt. BELIZE: I'll get you a painkiller. ROY: Will it knock me out? BELIZE: I sure hope so. ROY: Then shove it. Pain's . . . nothing, pain's life. BELIZE: Sing it, baby.

I wish you would stick more closely to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough already.

It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.