Quotes About Acceptance

Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?

Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to develop, others are left languishing. I also have a human side. I lose my temper, lose patience and sometimes judge others and myself.

Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.

It came to her that he was going to leave without making love to her. This would mean they had made love for the last time this morning. But that did not count: this morning they did not know it was for the last time. When the door shut behind him, she still could not believe it. "It can't end like this," she said to herself over and over, drumming with her knuckles on her mouth to keep from screaming.

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything… that smacks of discrimination or slander.

It made me love them more because I knew the day would come when I would also be unrecognizable to myself.

Knowing that death is hovering in the wings is a great leveller. We regret so many things - and yet what does it matter in the end? We can't change anything

I knew that if God had created a woman who could keep her man from straying, it probably wasn't me.

She learned a lot and some of the things she learned were hard to accept. She was made to realize once and for all that this earth on which they lived turning about in space did not revolve, as she had believed, for the sake of little people. "Nor for big people either," she reminded the boy when she saw his secret smile.

In this life," he went on, "you got to see what is, as you might say, and then face up to what you wish there wasn't.

His internal God-inspired vision for himself was realized through the acceptance of his previously unacceptable physical vision.

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.

The Uses Of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.

Sometimes to be seen is the same thing as being saved.

Time, on its own, heals nothing.

Man born of woman cannot outrun his fate. Better then not to question the Immortals, nor when they have spoken to grieve one's heart in vain. A bound is set to our knowing, and wisdom is not to search beyond it. Men are only men.

I now know something about myself which I have been suspecting for years, if I had had the honesty to admit it. I ought to be frightened and ashamed, but I am not.

Lo conoces? ?dijo Reg. ?No. Me he equivocado. ?Yo diría que es un marica total.

Sabes? Mi padre no le era fiel a mi madre. A ella le sabía muy mal, pero ahora ya está bien. ?No es lo mismo en una mujer. Es su sino y la naturaleza las ha hecho para aguantarlo, pero la naturaleza del hombre es distinta.

Solo hay un sobresalto peor que el totalmente inesperado, el esperado para el cual uno se ha negado a prepararse.