Quotes about Acceptance

"Americans do not presume to equate God's purposes with any purpose of our own...."[Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God's plan unfolds in his time, not our own.

I tell people all the time, preached a couple Sundays about it. I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.

Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.

Feeling quiet and empty, he told himself that he would be all right tomorrow. He would forgive himself the weakness of this night, it was like the tears one is permitted at a funeral, and then one learns how to live with an open wound or with a crippled factory.

She said 'no' to the words he spoke, and 'yes' to the voice that spoke them.

Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.

What is kinder—to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance—or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight!