Quotes About Acceptance

Did He create you with an incurable speech impediment?

Actually, we are the worst for not letting go, for not valuing emptiness, randomness, for not seeing the value of not knowing.

In ancient times, when the king would visit remote areas of his kingdom, a team would be sent ahead to smooth the road for his chariot. Holes would be filled in and bumps would be smoothed out. In the same way, when the Holy Spirit touches human hearts, it cuts down pride and the love of pleasure and power. It increases humility and self-sacrificing love. John's mission was the same: to prepare the hearts of people for the coming King, so that they would be ready to accept Him.

Be cool, trust the universe, don't worry about what you can't control.

My mind is a reasonable sort of fellow. But my heart . . .my heart has never been able to understand loss.

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

My big takeaway was that you lace up your skates, you put on your helmet and you get on the ice knowing all the rules. If you get blindsided, that's just part of it; if your teammate doesn't pass to you and takes the shot himself, that's the game, and if you lose 4–0, that's the game too. You just go out there and do your best with what you've got.

Pity? [If] you don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.

The good that may come out of the loss does not erase its badness or excuse the wrong done. Nothing can do that.

the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue to experience it.

Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.

I wasn't sad after my father kissed the streetcar. If anything, it was a relief. Much as I missed him, his dying gave me an excuse to feel the way I already felt. Which was the way I felt right now, under the laundry room fluorescents: hollow, pissed off, wanting to be wherever I wasn't. Until I got there. Then I wanted to be somewhere else.

Let me tell you something. Boring women get a bad rap. There's a lot to be said for boring women.

Don't forget about the past, don't worry about the future, but love what's here now!

Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don't think so though I'm not sure if I'd like to be and argh I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

And once I opened up all that real estate where before I'd been holding anger and regret, I found a lot of things were simpler than I'd made them.

The trick of life," she said, "is that you can't hold the pain for too long. The magic, either.

Evie had swallowed that like it belonged to her and went right back to whatever she was working on. Then, later that day, I was walking behind her as she told a fifth grader in outdated bell-bottoms that he wore them with "a flair and a flourish" all his own. I liked that a whole lot about Evie, how she passed on her treasures.