Quotes About Acceptance

If there were God, never would He have permitted what I have seen with my eyes. Let them have God.

Ar tu žinai, k? reiškia moteriai b?ti negražiai? Ar žinai, k? reiškia vis? gyvenim? b?ti bjauriai, o jaustis gražiai?

We are all broken, that's how the light gets in

mér fanst þær fyrirgefa okkur þó við værum ásfángin og gift - það mundi altsaman lagast með tímanum

had two reasons. Ned was by himself in this world, except for me, and I didn't want no man and no children spiting him just because he was an orphan. The other reason I never looked at a man, I was barren. An old woman on the place had told me that. I went to her one day and told her how my body act and didn't act. After we had sat down and talked a while, she said one word: "Barren." I went to a doctor and he told me the same thing: "You barren, all right.

You wanted the past changed, Reverend Martin," she told him. "Even He can't do that. So that leaves nothing but the future. We work toward the future.

The question Who am I? really asks, Where do I belong or fit? We get the sense of that direction -- the sense of moving toward the place where we fit, or of shaping the place toward which we are moving so that it will fit us -- from hearing how others have handled or are attempting to handle similar (but never exactly the same) situations. We learn by listening to their stories, by hearing how they came (or failed) to belong or fit.

To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.

I'm Not All-Right, and You're Not All-Right, But That's Okay—THAT'S All-Right

The essence of tolerance lies in its openness to difference.

My dear, do you want forgiveness … or an explanation?

Rude?os ar skumj?m samierinies.

For years the scar, harelip or misshapen nose has been looked on as a handicap, and its importance in the social and emotional adjustment is unconsciously all embracing. It is the "hook" on which the patient has hung all inadequacies, all dissatisfactions, all procrastinations and all unpleasant duties of social life, and he has come to depend on it not only as a reasonable escape from competition but as a protection from social responsibility.

Peace comes when you stop trying to control the world around you and instead take responsibility for the world within you.

While we may never find or receive the love from others that our hearts are desperate for, we can receive a love even greater than that of which we were deprived.

Our lives will become our greatest works of art not only when our relationships are a beautiful expression of love, acceptance, and intimacy, but when we have a deep sense of purpose that produces accomplishments that express, for us, success and significance.

We will never know peace if we lose the present because we are trapped in the past and paralyzed by the future.

happen if people actually began discovering the actual message of Jesus Christ—that love is unconditional?

We all are flawed. If there was a perfect community, it would be ruined the moment I joined it.

Debemos disparar la flecha y reconocer que hay cosas que están fuera de nuestro control, y debemos golpear la flecha y aceptar responsabilidad por lo que sí está en nuestro control. Debemos disparar y golpear, pero lo que no debemos hacer es detenernos.

AÈ™ vrea s? fiu mai bine un n?tâng, decât un înÈ›elept vestind nenorociri. S? se petreac? toate minunat chiar împotriva minÈ›ii mele!

And when you go to God's house, it ain't got to be no fashion show. You just come as you are.

Oh, thank you, Darrell Sikes, for being wild and nasty and rude and getting me out of The Program and making me Normal Dumb, not Special Dumb. I owe you one, Darrell Sikes.

One day Mrs. Goodkind said, 'Pickles, you are not a bad cat. You are not a good cat. You are good and bad. And bad and good. You are a mixed-up cat. What you need is a good home. Then you will be good.'