Quotes about Acceptance
It becomes easier to die and avoid conflicts than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.
— Maya Angelou
The unquestioning acceptance by my peers had dislodged the familiar insecurity.
— Maya Angelou
Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.
— Maya Angelou
In later years I asked her if she loved me and she brushed me off with; God is love. Just worry about whether you're being a good girl, then He will love you.
— Maya Angelou
If I am comfortable inside my skin, I have the ability to make other people comfortable inside their skins.
— Maya Angelou
I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
— Maya Angelou
Sister, change everything you don't like about your life. But when you come to a thing you can't change, then change the way you think about it. You'll see it new, and maybe a new way to change it.
— Maya Angelou
Today, I will let things happen without worrying about the significance of each event. I will trust that this will bring about my growth faster than running around with a microscope. I will trust my lessons to reveal themselves in their own time.
— Melody Beattie
Today, I will know that I don't have to worry about anything. If I do worry, I will do it with the understanding that I am choosing to worry, and it is not necessary.
— Melody Beattie
We work it out, or live it out.
— Melody Beattie
Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.
— Melody Beattie
God, help me let go of my need to deprive myself of being alive.
— Melody Beattie