Quotes About Acceptance

Silloin he taas nauroivat ja heidän mielestään oli tavattoman hullunkurista, että hemuli oli saanut koko elämänsä ajan tehdä sellaista, mikä ei ollut hänestä hauskaa. Ja vain sen takia, ettei voinut sanoa vastaan.

Just think, never to be glad nor disappointed. Never to like anyone and get crossed at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a belly-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink a beer and have a bad conscience... How terrible.

I wish I was more Moomin-minded.

Er zijn leemtes die je moet respecteren; de vaak lange periodes waarin je het hele beeld niet ziet, de woorden niet kunt vinden en met rust gelaten moet kunnen worden.

It looks as if neither of us will ever convince the other. But do we need to?" "No, the other person only needs to listen and understand." "I can accept that." - The Hothouse

You can believe what you like, but you must learn to be tolerant." "What does that mean?" asked the child sullenly. "That means respecting other people's convictions." What are convictions?" Sophia screamed and stamped her foot. "Letting others believe what they want to believe!" her grandmother shouted back. (p.38)

There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that's a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don't fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything's quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep—then they appear.

There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are.

One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness.

I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.

Love is not the answer to everything, but it creates a climate of security in which we can seek answers to those things that bother us. In the security of love, a couple can discuss differences without condemnation. Conflicts can be resolved. Two people who are different can learn to live together in harmony. We discover how to bring out the best in each other. Those are the rewards of love.

A mad desire to be more human, to be more normal, that's what pushes me, these days – but as someone said the other day. "Trace, you're going to have to face facts. You and normal, parted a long, long time ago.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

So you're telling me that I was Maelgwn's mother?

If the people would bother to learn about the cultures instead of condemning them, they might not be afraid.

I must fight against the regret that would see me defeated. I cannot change what has happened, but it needn't separate me from a happy future.

The past isn't something we can change or enhance. It cannot be rearranged or made over to better satisfy our current state. I firmly believe that God wants us to put the past to rest—as if it has died and we are burying it. Once a person dies and you bury them, you have no means by which you can bring them back to life. Even in memory, they are still gone. In the same way, the past is still gone, even when you dwell on it.

folks generally fear what's different and unknown to them.

In a short time, the right man will find you, and you will lose your heart to him and he will lose his to you. It will be just as it should be, and the scar will not matter.

She didn't want to. She loved you. She loves you now. Yes, she hurt you and she made a terrible mistake in leaving you. But your father made mistakes, too, and you will, as well. We all make bad choices - decisions that would better be left to rot in the bottom of the barrel. But we can't undo them. We can only move forward.

Instead of asking Him to remember you, why not pray to find comfort and value where He has taken you.

We all have scars. Some are visible and others aren't, but they are there all the same. Your scar makes you no less worthy.

Am I so desperate I must accept any gentleman who is not a villain or a gargoyle?