Quotes about Acceptance

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

Of course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save those who have not explicitly accepted him in this life.

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

As a people, I am afraid, we tend too often to brush aside with impatience, sometimes with discourtesy, customs and points of view which are alien to us.

The danger lies in the possibility that we will not accept the person as he is but try to make him over according to our own ideas.

Maturity means, too, an ability to take criticism and evaluate it. When it is not of value, when it is not constructive, but destructive, one can forget it. But when it is constructive one must accept it and try to profit, even though hurt by it. Perhaps you were hurt because a certain person pointed out a fault and you did not want that person to think you had a fault. But, if you are mature enough, you will accept the criticism of those you love and who love you and learn from it.

The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.