Quotes About Acceptance

But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes me content not only in one particular but in general, whatever befalls me.

there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...

It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness.

Here lies the bottom and root of all contentment, when there is an evenness and proportion between our hearts and our circumstances.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wide and fatherly disposition in every condition.

Pain will leave you, when you let go

The next day I called my neighbouring farmers to say I was going to have a coronary, and they all had the same piece of advice. I had to accept whatever happens, because that's farming. They also said I had to be patient, which is not possible. I can't be patient. It's not in my DNA. It's a bit like telling Nicholas Witchell he has to be a Moroccan cage fighter.

Stick to breathing. It's the only thing you're any good at.

In the end, the majority of the group voted to let the wizard live.

Once I catch a serious FUCK IT wave, I ride that thing right up to the sand. "Sand" might be a loose metaphor for "point where I'm almost dead and filled with the kind of regret you have to actively forget in order to continue on as a human being.

Is that where we're at? Finding joy in the prospect of slightly diminished atrocities?

Is that where we're at? Finding joy in the prospect of slightly diminished atrocities?

I considered sex work, but then I bent over and looked at my asshole in a mirror. Nobody was going to pay me for access to that thing.

Instead I saw a fresh colostomy bag hanging from the side of his belly, "SHIT HAPPENS" written on the plastic in black felt-tip.

No one chooses to become a banker. It just happens, like cancer, and then you try to live with it for as long as you can.

Look with great forgiveness upon the weakness of others.

Nothing is intolerable that is necessary. Now God hath bound thy trouble upon thee by His special providence, and with a design to try thee, and with purposes to reward and crown thee. These cords thou canst not break, and therefore lie thou down gently, and suffer the hand of God to do what He pleases.

You can't fight memories. They come whether you look for them or not.

You want me to flash you" I said He nodded vigorously, like I'd asked if he wanted fries with that. "And then you'll pass on?" "That's all I want. So, yeah." I could almost believe that a fourteen-year-old boy could find deep spiritual peace from a pair of boobs.

The future is as far from perfect and as full of errors as this baseball game, but at this moment, it's all mine. And I guess that's something

Maybe you should stay. You've found where you belong. Most people never get that lucky their whole lives.

You can't help what you feel." "I can try harder to feel something different.

The only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face.

I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.