Quotes About Acceptance

Love isn't easy, it is? That's because we're all different. We don't fit together as cleanly as the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes there are gaps. Rough edges. Holes. The finished product when we come together isn't always perfect. But as we're reminded in Corinthians, a love that keeps no record of wrongs...that perseveres...never fails.

God wouldn't be interested in the likes of him.

Forgive me, Lord, for being afraid of people who are different than me. Help me find the courage to do what the good Samaritan did that day on the roadside. Give me grace and compassion to overcome my narrow-mindedness and bigotry. Help me drive out any feelings of superiority. Let me see everyone as an equal and a worthy brother and sister—and act accordingly.

Accept the fact that this is a man's world and learn how to play the game gracefully, my sweet.

about death and violence. Noah would deny it.

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

Enough of this soul-searching. What would be, would be. She could only do what she thought was right.

it's easy to blame everyone else when it hurts to blame yourself. But in the end you have to face it.

Friendship is the comfort The inexpressible comfort Of feeling safe with a person Having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words But pouring all right out Just as they are, chaff and grain together, Certain that a friendly faithful hand Will take and sift them Keep what is worth keeping And with a breath of comfort Blow the rest away.

Beware of people who dislike cats

Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi

There are bars with women wearing shirts with stiff necks and ties and they are terribly proud to be perverts, as if that weren't something nobody can do anything about.

We went to the movies together. It was a movie about girls in uniforms. They were high-class girls, but they had the same problems I have. You love somebody and that brings tears to your eyes and gives you a red nose. You love somebody--it's nothing you can understand. It doesn't matter whether it's a man or a woman or God.

I have this desire in my gut to be liked by everybody. That always happens when nobody likes you.

Stop trying to make thing happen for yourself, and let them happen to you.

I could not be greedy, about money, I could not be greedy about miles or rides, and I could not be greedy about closeness with people; all things come in their own time, and are not mine to keep or covet - just to enjoy and learn from.

I've got to learn o take rest and shelter - here, there, anywhere - with as much composure and ease as I accept the open road. It is the basic contest between Being and Doing, focused in my life now as never before.

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.

This is what being alive's all about, all those fucked up feelings. You've got to have them; when you stop, watch out.

When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.

I myself have accepted the term [neoconservative], perhaps, because, having been named Irving, I am relatively indifferent to baptismal caprice.

It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie. [Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]