Quotes about Acceptance
We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.
- Rob Bell
Change can be uncomfortable and scary. But I believe change exists to teach us to appreciate and enjoy the right now.
- Gretchen Bleiler
The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
- Wayne Dyer
Some people spend their time reasoning and thinking out everything, and so anything that cannot be fully understood, they will not accept. We call these people 'intellectuals.'
- Mother Angelica
As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.
- Marianne Williamson
Some of you, unfortunately, will never marry in this life. That turns out to be the case sometimes. If that happens, do not spend your life grieving over it. The world still needs your talents. It needs your contribution.
- Gordon Hinckley
People make mistakes and I've probably made a few more than others, but unfortunately mine are also a bit more public. That's the way it is. You've just got to get on with life. After all, it's not a rehearsal.
- Shane Warne
"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "
- Charles Dickens
A wound won't heal if you keep touching it.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
If a fly lands on your food, do not use a hammer to remove it.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in vain to try and kick the wind.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose does not lose sleep because it was mocked by weeds.
- Matshona Dhliwayo