Quotes About Acceptance

The gift he had been given was sometimes heavy to bear, the ability always to understand why the other person was as he was. Wounded, yes, but never angry, and there were times when he longed to feel fierce personal anger.

weak? You must learn to take from a person that which is his best and ignore all else.

Why must this happen to me?" To this there could be no answer and there was none. When I knew at last that there could never be an answer, my own resolve shaped into the determination to make meaning out of the meaningless, and so provide the answer, though it was of my own making.

Times were chosen and appointed. If one forced them, they were wrong.

To belong to one was to deny himself the privilege of belonging to all.

Be proud of your child, accept him as he is and do not heed the words and stares of those who know no better. This child has a meaning for you and for all children. You will find a joy you cannot now suspect in fulfilling his life for and with him.

Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.

Learn the good that you can of the foreign people and reject the unsuitable.

You cannot be happy unless you understand that life is sad.

Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy to sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

want to go where my children never hear that a man's color dooms him and that because a woman is black, she is not a woman but a female.

The country she had taken for granted as her own, where she had been born, whose language alone she spoke, had rejected her and despised her.

This foreign one has no fear of anything in her, although she is not beautiful as the Fourth Lady was beautiful. She does not trouble herself. She accepts as her right the interest of men. She makes no effort to win their glances. She seems to say, "This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.

and when the hour is come that has been set for each of us before ever we can walk or talk, then what need of mourning?

Déjame estar triste, es la única forma que conozco de estrujar la felicidad para que después no me pene.

The way I look at it, impatience may be the enemy of perfection, but the perfect is the enemy of the good.

Infertility had rocked me to my core.

Shikataganai, she added. It can't be helped.

There is a time in each person's life when they become accountable for making the decision to accept Jesus' payment for their wrongdoing. If the decision is to accept the restored fellowship with God through receiving Jesus' blood sacrifice for their sins, then God's Holy Spirit takes up residency in the person. God's spirit actually comes and lives in those who invite him to do so. - Excerpt, Unshackled: Experiencing True Freedom for Men and Women

True freedom comes as we discover and accept the person God created us to be. It grows as we follow the teachings our Creator gave to ensure freedom on the part of those who chose to obey those teachings.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can't simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what's going on, but that there's something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world.

We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is ours, off limits to others. We're willing to attack if others threaten to hurt it. Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea.

No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)