Quotes about Acceptance

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

He is not truly patient who will only suffer as far as seems right to him and from whom he pleases. The truly patient man considers not by whom he is tried, one above him, or by an equal, or by an inferior, whether by a good and holy man or by a perverse and unworthy, but from every creature. He gratefully accepts all from the hand of God and counts it gain.

Take pains to be patient in bearing the faults and weaknesses of others, for you too have many flaws that others must put up with.

Your assignment is to love everyone, accepting all that happens to you.

If you cannot sing like the lark and the nightingale, sing like the raven and the frogs in the pond. They sing as God has given them to sing.

The person who truly understands love could love anyone.

I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood.

That is the next step for out trans actors - to just be treated as actors and not 'trans actors.'

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline.

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

And in our culture today, tolerance no longer means to put up with something you believe to be false (after all, you don't tolerate things you agree with). Tolerance now means that you're supposed to accept every belief as true!