Quotes About Acceptance

However, I am accustomed to not having what I want.

Being lesbian isn't a way of life, it's a trivial attribute that doesn't change your character.

Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on the only road they can see. Sometimes we cannot raise our chins and see eye to eye, so we must bow our heads and have faith in one another.

We plan our days, but we don't control them.

I learned that you need not be born into a family to be loved by one.

Books made me believe that smart girls who didn't necessarily fit in with the popular crowd could be the ones to solve mysteries, rescue people in distress, ferret out international criminals, fly spaceships to distant planets, take up arms and fight battles. Books showed me that not all fathers understand their daughters or even seek to, but that people can turn out okay despite that. Books made me feel beautiful when I wasn't. Capable when I couldn't be.

Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.

The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

What we cannot change, we must endure without bitterness. Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on the only road they can see. Sometimes we cannot raise our chins and see eye to eye, so we must bow our heads and have faith in one another.

Maybe there came a point in life where you had to quit categorizing whole groups of people by a few bad experiences.

Be patient, Katie. Everything doesn't have to work itself out today.

The most important skill in life is to learn the acceptance of that which you have not planned for yourself.

I've found in life that bygones are a bit like collard greens. They tend to taste bitter. It's best not to chew on them overly long.

I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't.

The most important endeavors require a risk," I tell her. It's the hardest piece of reality to accept. Striking off into the unknown is terrifying, but if we don't begin the journey, we'll never know where it could lead.

I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.

You got to remember that when things are out of our hands, that doesn't mean they're not in God's.

Other people's judgment doesn't have any power unless you offer yourself up for trial, so don't.

we cannot change where God has put us. If we are to bloom at all, we must bloom where we have been planted.

My life was like that box. The best things in all the imperfections.

Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.

Trust. It was possible to trust that which you could not predict, or plan, or control. In fact, it was essential. It was the only way to really live.

We all have scars. It's when you're honest about them that you find the people who will love you in spite of your nicks and dents. Perhaps even because of them. The people who don't. These people aren't the ones for you.

quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat-drift on faith for a while.