Quotes about Acceptance

Do not wish to be anything but what you are.

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all, accept these things.

To love others, we must first learn to love ourselves.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.

Remember, if God had wanted this to be perfect, he never would have had me up here.

Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

Today, well lived, will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.

Because of Christ's prevenient and unconditional invitation, the fellowship of the table cannot be restricted to people who are 'faithful to the church', or to the 'inner circle' of the community. For it is not the feast of the particularly righteous, of the people who think that they are particularly devout; it is the feast of the weary and heavy-laden, who have heard the call to refreshment.

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.