Quotes about Acceptance

You do matter, already. Without making one single change.

The absence of regret makes no guarantee of the absence of pain.

I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts men from every nation who fear him

I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.

There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

He knows that any job, whether it's a novel or a kitchen remodel, takes twice as long as he thinks and costs twice as much. He accepts that. He recognizes it as reality.

Maybe it's less threatening to believe that our beloved spouse is worthy to live out his or her unlived life, while we are not.

Act, Junah, but act without attachment, as the earth does. As I do. The rain falls, with no thought of watering the land. The clouds roll, not seeking to bring shade. They simply do. And we must too.

Many of us suffer because we think that if people don't really love us, then we will have to live forever without love. But it's not true. The greatest sense of love, which is available for us at all times, is God's love.