Quotes about Acceptance

Give all to love;Obey thy heart;Friends, kindred, days,Estate, good fame,Plans, credit and the Muse,Nothing refuse.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

May God grant us the grace to laugh at ourselves.

A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.

'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

It's one thing to be supported in your career and another thing for your peers to embrace you and say, 'We believe in you.'

I understood the whole purpose of Truth and Reconciliation, and I supported it 100 per cent, but I couldn't deal with it myself.

Everything happens just like it's supposed to happen; you've just got to roll with it and keep moving forward.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

I thought going in that I had to have this very broad, very palatable sensibility that works for everybody, but then the stuff that I'm the most proud of, and probably even got the most success from, was outwardly an expression of queerness or gayness. That's been a nice surprise.

If we cannot defend the things of this world and if none of the relationships in which we walk the earth can withstand the criticism which reduces the whole to relativity, we can still love them and we need take the criticism no more seriously than it deserves (pp. 29, 248).