Quotes About Acceptance

Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn't do anything - it was given to you.

When our weaknesses affect health and friendship, we are very much aware of their existence.

Whenever I have a problem, I ask the Saint (Thérèse of Lisieux) not to solve it, but to take it into her hands and to help me accept it and I almost always receive a white rose as a sign.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

You can't change what you don't acknowledge.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

God help me, I'm just not that bright.

I'd like to see a world where, if a teenager fears she's seeing/hearing things, she feels as comfortable seeking help as she would if she found a lump on her leg.

You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything.

WINTER: Because I guess I like the idea that maybe someday I can find my place, you know? My niche. Somewhere people will keep me.

You are valuable, even in your imperfection.

There is no need for a long, persuasive introduction about self-confidence. If you are not a confident person, you already know it.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

There is room in history for all of us.

You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.