Quotes about Acceptance

I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

What God wills, will happen; thou canst not hurry it, thou canst not alter it; therefore wait; and be patient

I don't blame anybody.  I deserve it all.  Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know—there's a grave somewhere for me. The world may go on just as it's always done, and take everything from me—loved ones, property, everything; but it can't take that. Some day I'll lie down in it and forget it all, and my poor broken heart will be at rest.

They mourned for his kind of Christianity, and he frankly scoffed at theirs; but both parties went on loving each other just the same.

Not a sparrow falls to the ground without His seeing it. But it falls, just the same. What good is seeing it fall?

The only person who likes change is a wet baby.