Quotes about Acceptance

Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

I've nothing, am nothing, shall be nothing, and yet I take nothing.

She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her.

No human being is illegal.

We are not asked to SEE, said Amy. Why need we when we KNOW? We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering?