Quotes About Acceptance

Christ's sympathies are broader and His love is larger than we think.... We hedge him round with our poor creeds, and shut Him up in our little churches, and think He works only in our appointed ways. He breaks over the barriers we put about him, and carries on His work of love in hearts that we think are beyond all reach of Him or us. We cannot tell our brother how to find the light. The light will find him.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say "No! I don't want it right now," that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.

It was her religion to make the best of everything.

In Maine during the summer of 1920 they rowed around Hog Island to the side facing the open ocean, and here he asked her to marry him. She was emotionally dead, she confessed. He didn't seem to mind.

All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

Would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy?

Until one day I realized that regret from the past was keeping me from living well in the present. And it was robbing me of a future.

We were meant to love people, and we need to accept their love in return. Otherwise, we ain't really living.

Worry doesn't change a single thing. Just live.

I will thank Him for all that He has given me, not curse Him for all that I've lost.

I thank her for starting that rumor in my brain that I was lovable. I thank her for her one-woman cult of blood, cum, spit, and razors that called me exquisite and shunned all the winners, cheerleaders, cops, and clear-skinned Hollywood movie stars.

We have to deal with the world as it is, not as we wish it were.

You were right to insist that we invest in the beds. I don't know why we did not jump on getting them sooner. She knew why. A woman, Dr. Jesse Wright invented them. And much like Sister Kenny's method for rehabilitating polio patients, her idea was scorned until enough men embraced it.

Despite my lovely diction I am going to die.

It's one thing to accept one's destiny. It's quite another to live it.

Luck in the Shadows, Alec; you don't question it, you just give thanks and pray it doesn't run out!

This Captain Rhal of yours sounds like someone worth knowing," Micum said. "I've thought so ever since you told how he let you go that night." "Micum told me something of your trip, but I'd like to hear your version of it," said Kari. "Did he really fancy Seregil, Alec?" Alec grinned. "I half fancied him myself, when he was all prettied up.

Take what the Lightbearer sends and be thankful.

Like any hidden talent that you've either consciously or unconsciously known was there but didn't feel comfortable bringing out, once you accept the fact that wanting is part of you, and that doing it is really okay, it becomes fun. Joy starts to flow. You begin to vibrate differently, for when you are in joy with Life you cannot vibrate negatively and you cannot attract negatively, only positively.

She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it.

you couldn't stop a person from being who she was. All you could do was stop yourself from being with her.

Now, Doc—" "Yes, Shiloh?" She interrupted with exaggerated sweetness, and fluttered her eyelashes. Shiloh grinned. "I dunno, I musta gone crazy there for a minute. I was actually going to try to talk you out of something. But don't worry, I'm okay now.

SECRET #47 When life gives you a pile of poop, you're gonna get dirty—so you may as well roll with it.