Quotes about Acceptance
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
- Henry Ward Beecher
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults
- Les Brown
But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.
- Lewis Carroll
Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
- Wayne Dyer
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The knowledge of my forgiveness washed over me again. I was free. Free from my sin. From my wretched past. I could see it in his eyes—and then he spoke my name.
- Janette Oke
Have you grown since I saw you last?" "No, master. I'm still the runt you left behind." "I have never called you that. Scamp, most certainly. Scoundrel, almost daily. But never runt."
- Janette Oke
No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
- Mother Teresa
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.
- Seth Godin