Quotes About Acceptance

Love is a strange fact-it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no since at all.

People fear miracles because they fear being changed—though ignoring them will change you also.

Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.

She seemed to belong here, though maybe she was the sort to belong wherever she was at the time.

You know what you're getting here, I said. I'm still fairly far reduced. I may never be unabridged again. None of us are unabridged, as you are well aware.

My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed—though ignoring them will change you also.

A person can't regret honesty any more than other unavoidables—a plain face or a poor history.

I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most of the time I'm good. I accepted my sentence and do not brood or look back. But sometimes a shift makes me remember. Routine is ruffled and a new start makes me suddenly conscious of what I've become -

As if reading his mind, Jamal-al-Din said, 'To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

Perhaps we half and halfs should always make a choice, one nationality instead of the other, one language instead of the other. We should nourish one identity and starve the other so that it would atrophy and drop off. Then we could relax and become like everyone else, we could snuggle up to the majority and fit in.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man.

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you're tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty .

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

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The first step in battling the illusion of control is to be aware of it.

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Acceptance is the heart of the stoic approach: you can lessen emotional pain if you accept that the "worst" may happen and focus only on what you can do to respond

Don't pressure your daughter or your son to conform to gender stereotypes. If your son wants to take ballet classes, cheer him on. If your daughter wants to study marshal arts and computer programming, sign her up. Teach your son that there are all kinds of man in the world including men who excel at ballet and macrame. Teach your daughter that there are all kinds of women in the world, including women who are masters of karate and computer programming.

Philip Yancey was dead-on when he said that some Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.79

Jesus didn't care about a "holy table" as the religious establishment defined "holy." For Jesus a holy table was one that was open to anyone, a table where all God's children were present.