Quotes about Acceptance

Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all

The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.