Quotes About Acceptance

And so the Hopi came to accept that the price of living was that they must always be in the presence of death, and thus wasted none of their precious time in the sun worrying about something that was every bit as much a part of their lives as the air they breathed." "I

Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie." "Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your real friend. John Robert can be your real little friend.

Daylight had not brought a solution, but it had accorded indifference. Having

Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world but has not solved one yet." ? Maya Angelou Quote

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." ? Denis Waitley

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

It's no good wishing for the impossible. Don't wish. Remember. Remembrances are real.

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

You know, Henry, we're the only people who get born into the enemy camp. I mean, black babies get born into black families, Jewish babies get born into Jewish families, but gay babies, we get born into straight families. How we survive it all is a miracle.

And what right do you have to judge me? He was nothing to you but a drink." "No," I said. "I loved him." She looked away from me. A moment later she said, "I have never understood homosexuality. I can't picture what you men do with each other." "I could tell you but it would completely miss the point.

Grief is half of justice," she said, and added, a moment later, "the other half is hope.

What I remembered most clearly from my first sex with another man was the unexpected tenderness. It disturbed me - disoriented me. I guess. I had expected homosexuality to be dark and furtive, but it wasn't.

There's nothing you need to do, be, have, get, change, practice, or learn in order to be happy, loving, and whole.

What is true forgiveness? M: It is understanding that each creation has their own method of learning and producing, and they're entitled to mistakes, as I am. The growth process isn't perfect, and you must understand that so you don't always remember people for the hurt you imagined from them in the past.

I have been defeated, and in the defeat I have won myself. It is a pleasure to die at the hands of Life.

Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it.

He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.

Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-

you can do nothing to stop the ocean or the sky from what it will do.

Days pass and years pass and you light the holy candle of yourself by the glimmer of someone else, and just when you think you're burned out on her, you realize that she's the single thing that raises you above yourself. And now she's dumped you flat and taken up with a lumberjack or that sensitive guy in town who runs the bookstore or the FedEx man who wears tight shorts in the summer. That guy? How could she?

This again was the curious thing about Ambrosio, his willingness to live fully inside the moment, whatever its virtue or folly, without regard for the future.

Here's how you think about it: Together you constructed many things throughout your life. Then her body disappeared, but the constructions still remain. Human beings die: That's natural. But to accept her death is to lose all hope.

Despite the fact that he was a sixty-one year old man when he was naturalized as an American citizen, it's amazing how fully he's been appropriated by this country.

Our task in life consists precisely in a form of letting go of fear and expectations, an attempt to purely give oneself to the impact of the present.