Quotes About Acceptance

Life was a strange circle. She tried not to decipher it, but rather to accept it as it came.

Sometimes little is better than nothing at all.

You may not see it, but even the lowliest servant has value, purpose, worth. Everyone has a place and none of those places should be diminished.

There's no such thing as perfection, and even if there were, I think it'd be rather boring.

I was proud of you today, handling William Long the way you did." Her fingers stilled. "What did you think of him the first time you met him?" she asked quietly. "That he was the kind of man you should have married." "And now you don't think that anymore?" "Now, it doesn't matter. You're married to me." "I was the night you met him." Jake's eyes met and held hers in the moonlight. "No, you weren't. Not really." His arm tightened around her. "But you are now.

She thought her world had stopped falling apart, but she was wrong. It had simply become isolated, her focus narrowed to struggling not to continually grieve for all that had been irrevocably lost

If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that lamentation and regrets only make things worse. A person must move on, move forward but never forget the past, but learn from it. If you ponder the 'if onlys' of life, they will drive you mad.

She could touch him however she wanted, say whatever she wanted. No holding back for fear of censure. No withdrawing for fear of judgment. With him, she could be herself completely and absolutely. Was herself completely and absolutely. Was more than herself as the world fell away. She was herself with him, with this man who accepted her openly, naughtiness and all. Who made her his own.

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

I once wanted to save the world. Now I just want to leave the room with some dignity.

We don't sign here, of course. We want to prepare these children to enter the normal world." She believed that.

But thinking back on all those times, I had this odd, inescapable feeling that society thought it was some kind of sin to be deaf.

So much had been lost.

My father, she insisted, was not born deaf. "Insisted" because there was an even greater stigma attached to genetic deafness (and the family) than there was to acquired deafness.

Less and less we were freaks. More and more we were curiosities.

Time and again I heard my grandmother Wells say she would give her own hearing to make her daughter "whole." In her mind, deafness was some kind of divine retribution.

I love the new legal immigrants they want their kids to be safe just like I do.

Lao Tzu wrote: "Know the personal, yet keep to the impersonal: Accept the world as it is. Then the Tao will be luminous inside you, and you will return to the Uncarved Block." There is so much philosophy packed into this verse that it summarizes central teachings about happiness from three great ancient traditions: those not only from Taoism, but also from Buddhism and Stoicism

And no kinds of love are better than others. Some Kinda Love

Please don't set me free Death means a lot me

If you have no more happiness to give me, / Well then! you still have your pain.

I wonder how many people look at their own lives as having an arc, and live their lives accordingly, given the built-in certainty of cancellation. We're all going to get canceled someday. We just don't know how many seasons we'll be around for.

So the person who has been forgiven much has much room to forgive others.

The only thing that will help us move past the giant of rejection is to immerse ourselves in the acceptance of Christ.