Quotes about Acceptance

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

No one should be harassed or mistreated because of who they are, who they love, or what they believe.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.

Here I am not the one to throw out. No one steals my warmth and shoes because I am small. No one handles my backside. No one whinnies like sheep or goat because I drop in fear and weakness. No one screams at the sight of me. No one watches my body for how it is unseemly. With you my body is pleasure is safe is belonging. I can never not have you have me.

The narrower their lives, the wider their hips.

It was lovely. Not to be stared at, not seen, but being pulled into view by the interested, uncritical eyes of the other.

I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

It may even be that some of us know what it is like to be actually hated—hated for things we have no control over and cannot change.