Quotes About Acceptance

men bowed, being unable to force the issue. As Sethirkhopeshef

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning.

Grace just is. Nobody can explain it, and it's not something you can deserve. Whether you recognize it or not, whether you feel grateful for it or not, it just is. Guilty or innocent, condemned or redeemed, when you think that you can't go on, and when you think you've already gone on, grace is wider and deeper than you think, and it can change far more that you ever imagined. There is no place where anything begins or ends, but by grace, everything comes in it's time.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

We ask a great deal of the world at first -- then less -- and then less.

If you intend to insist on justice in order to live a successful and happy life, you will not do so in this lifetime, on this planet.

To the degree that we deny the gift of life, we embrace death.

You are not "inferior." You are not "superior." You are simply "You.

I have found that an easy-to-remember picture of the successful personality is contained in the letters of the word "success" itself. The success-type personality is composed of: Sense of direction Understanding Courage Compassion Esteem Self-Confidence Self-Acceptance

Self-fulfilled persons have the following characteristics: 1. They see themselves as liked, wanted, acceptable, and able individuals 2. They have a high degree of acceptance of themselves as they are. 3. They have a feeling of oneness with others. 4. They have a rich store of information and knowledge.

I have discovered that much nervousness and anxiety is caused by mentally trying to escape or run away from something that you have decided to go through with physically. If the decision is made to go through with physically. If the decision is made to go through with it—not to run away physically—why mentally keep considering or hoping for escape.

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep ... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass.

The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable

Body my housemy horse my houndwhat will I dowhen you are fallenQuestion [1954], st. 1

We all need to have confidence in how we look and who we are. God made us in his image. Who are we to judge his work?

I make a mental note to befriend some boring people.

I don't need more anger. I just want to move on...

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

It was wonderful to receive from my President, the Freedom Award and to know that I am a member of the group most recently bought and sold with everybody's agreement, and the people who longed for freedom. When I accepted that award, I thought of all the people who had come from all over the world to find freedom in the United States. I accepted the award for African Americans, every slave who got off every boat, every European, and every Asian who came here searching for freedom.

If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.