Quotes about Acceptance

Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don't shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say.

We cannot slay our incapacity and rise above it, but that is precisely what we wanted. Incapacity exists. No one should deny it, find fault with it or shout it down.

Blind acceptance never leads to a solution; at best it leads only to a standstill and is paid for heavily in the next generation.

The key, of course, is loving the churchless for who they are rather than for what they can offer our church.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

These fellow mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are.

Animals are such agreeable friends?they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

I especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly. Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway? I suppose I mean youth, which has been so present in our conversations.

Although stunned and hungry, many sang, because it would have been pointless to aggravate misfortune by complaining.

I called him Grandfather, because according to him you do not have to be of the same blood or same tribe to be a member of the same family, but in truth I should have called him Maman. He was the only mother I ever knew.

The wise man desires nothing; he does not judge, he makes no plans, he keeps his mind open and his