Quotes about Acceptance
The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Tolerance like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
- Octavia Butler
People shouldn't be allowed to live so far away," he said at the front door. "What do you gain by hiding away from the world like this? It'll catch up with you anyway.
- Olga Tokarczuk
I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.
- Olga Tokarczuk
I pass billboards that announce in black and white, in English, 'Jesus loves even you'. I feel uplifted by the unexpected encouragement; I'm only slightly alarmed by the 'even'. (page 336)
- Olga Tokarczuk
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
And if I should live to beThe last leaf upon the treeIn the spring,Let them smile, as I do now,At the old forsaken boughWhere I cling.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
You cannot hate other people without hating your self.
- Oprah Winfrey
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
- Oprah Winfrey
True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience."
- Oprah Winfrey
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
- Oprah Winfrey
True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.
- Oprah Winfrey