Quotes About Acceptance

To learn of the existence of other lesbians through the media, no matter how unfortunate those characters were, must have been reassuring to women who loved other women.

I found that Dottie's middle age, old age, made rock of much that had been fluid, and eccentricities once charming became too strange for safety or comfort.

God, Jack, it makes you want to go out and convert the whole damn world to homosexuality," she told him. "Just so you can walk down the street with your head up. "Maybe

The repair of these inner wounds can only come about through loving attention and unconditional acceptance from another. The process, however, also reactivates the pain of abuse, neglect, or unfulfilled needs from the past that continue to go unmet in the present. Consequently, there needs to be a willingness to reawaken the pain of the original experiences, which may have been buried in an effort to forget them. But until the pain is re-exposed to the light of compassion, healing cannot occur.

One of the hardest things to accept when someone you love dies is that life goes on. It's like a river that never stops.

Peace comes through acceptance.

Regardless of whether we live in the East or the West, whether we are rich or poor, we must find contentment with what God has given.

If we don't accept God's portion for us, we will become women with spirits of discontent.

If we want to be women of contentment, we must choose to accept our portion, our assigned roles from God.

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

Contentment is essentially a matter of accepting from God's hand what He sends because we know that He is good and therefore it is good."5

Never allow yourself to complain about anything — not even the weather. Never picture yourself in any other circumstances or someplace else. Never compare your lot with another's. Never allow yourself to wish this or that had been otherwise. Never dwell on tomorrow — remember that [tomorrow] is God's, not ours.1

Not only are many neighborhood conflicts characterized by this insult-for-insult relationship, but many marriages, unfortunately, fall into the same trap. In the chapter on unconditional acceptance, I suggested an exercise in which you divide a sheet of paper into 2 columns and then note your mate's weaknesses in the right-hand column.

A quiet heart is content with what God gives.6

Because I found out that a little love is better than no love at all.

how do we learn to accept and forgive those who have both succeeded and failed in helping us become who we are?

The speed with which Anne Sexton found acceptance within the cadre of the literary elite was indeed remarkable, but it belied the work required.

Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

Can we love what will swallow us when we are gone? I do.

He supposed he knew, rationally, that she wasn't the prettiest woman in the world, but if his eyes saw any imperfections, his heart didn't care.

He didn't believe in miracles. If he'd had any philosophy in life in ran along the lines of the classic shit happens. Usually it was bad shit, sometimes it was good shit, but it was always random shit. You lived your life, & when the run was ended, that was it. Nothing.

He'd never thought he would love any woman, least of all an Anglo, but that was before this slight, delicate creature had bulldozed her way into his life and completely changed it.

How do you function when your entire body has been overtaken by searing emotional pain? How do you function when a huge hole had been ripped in your life? How do you ever smile again, laugh again, feel joy again? You just do it...Because you have no choice.

You only fear something that hasn't happened. Once it has happened, all you can do is deal with it.