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Quotes About Acceptance

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.
~ Eugene Kennedy
To err is human, to forgive supine.
~ S. J. Perelman
Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
~ William Golding
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Know all and you will pardon all.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.
~ Cheryl Strayed
When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.
~ Jean Vanier
I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
~ Nicole Kidman
In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.
~ Pat Conroy
The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
~ Phillips Brooks
God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.
~ Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story
Forgiveness is divine, but never pay pull price for late pizza.
~ Unknown
Let bygones be bygones.
~ Christina Rossetti
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
~ George Eliot
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
Forgiveness is possible even when there is no restitution, no remorse on the part of the perpetrator.
~ Virginia H. Pearce
Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.
~ Raven-Symone
Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.
~ Benjamin Barber
The cut worm forgives the plow.
~ William Blake
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
I can always forgive where I understand.
~ Jude Morgan, Indiscretion