Quotes about Acceptance

You embrace your impotence, your powerlessness, your lack of control over the outcomes—you make peace with all that you can't do, with your limits, with all the people you can't help.

Spirit is often lurking in whatever it is you most dislike.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Grievances are a form of impatience. Griefs are a form of patience.

Our sacrifice—the best we have to offer, And not our worst nor second best, our best, Our very best, our lives laid down like Jonah's Our lives laid down in war and peace—may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. 'May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.' 'I should have called it Something you somehow haven't to deserve.

I had not taken the first step in knowledge; I had not learned to let go with the hands, As still I have not learned to with the heart. And have no wish to with the heart—nor need. That I can see. The mind—is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind— Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.

Until you stop wishing things were different, accept the way they are, and take up the sole responsibility of doing something about it, nothing will change.

I feel rather blue to-night. I am a horrid little goose, I know - but the trouble is, I can't help being a horrid little goose.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

Mrs. Hammon told me that God made my hair red on purpose and I haven't card for him since.