Quotes About Acceptance

In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked higher than the pyramids; they had killed themselves over the failure to find a love none of us could ever be. In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

Parents: so essential, yet sometimes like something you've stepped in and cannot get off your shoe. What else is there but to love them?

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

By calling BS on so much of what goes on, this book gives people a closer, more scientific look at many dimensions of leadership behavior. Most important, it encourages everyone to finally stop accepting sugar-laced but toxic potions as cures.

I testify that no one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each of us—insecurities, anxieties, self-image, and all. He doesn't measure our talents or our looks; He doesn't measure our professions or our possessions. He cheers on every runner, calling out that the race is against sin, not against each other.

None of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each of us-- Insecurities, anxieties, poor self-image, and all. He doesn't measure our talents or our looks; He doesn't measure our professions or our possessions. He cheers on every runner, calling out that the race is against sin, not against each other.

Try not to compare your children, even if you think you are skillful at it. You may say most positively that "Susan is pretty and Sandra is bright," but all Susan will remember is that she isn't bright and Sandra that she isn't pretty. Praise each child individually for what that child is and help him or her escape our culture's obsession with comparing, competing, and never feeling we are "enough.

Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve… If something is buried in the past, leave it buried.

It is not your job to prove your value to anyone. It is your job to find the people that already value what you do.

Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place.

Not everyone you meet is going to like you, and that's okay.

True power is learning how to put others first and not judge a book by its cover, so to speak.

If I don't return, make sure Hercules moves on from all of this," Meg said. "Meg..." Phil swallowed hard. It was the first time he'd called her by her actual name. She tried to put her spinning thoughts into words. "I don't want him wasting his immortality on me. He's a good guy who gives so much of himself. He deserves to have someone do that for him in return. Got it?" Phil looked at her. "Wow, you really do love the guy, don't you?

Elsa smiled, her heart full and her head in a good place. Her people were happy. She was content. And she was very, very loved by a sister who had finally been returned to her. Things were exactly as they should be.

Change happens whether you want it to or not. And sometimes, like now, it's for the best.

She played with one of her braids. Three years feels so far away . "Hey." Kristoff moved closer. "Your hair." "Oh." She was used to this question. "The white stripe? I was born with it," she explained. "That's what my parents were told. They actually adopted me when I was a baby. I dreamt that I was kissed by a troll." Kristoff's eyes widened. "Did you say 'troll'?" He hurried after her to hear more.

Missing is a part of living and dying.

What's happened has happened. You can't change the past. All you can do is work on making a brighter future.

she reaches over and hugs me. And I actually let her.

There's no point rehashing how we all got here. What's done is done.