Quotes about Acceptance

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all

The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

If love is universal, no one can be left out.

A world without prejudice, stigma, and discrimination against those who have or are thought to have mental illness would be a better one for everyone. What so-called normal people are doing when they define disease like manic depression or schizophrenia is reassuring themselves that they don't have a thought disorder or an affective disorder, that their thoughts and feelings make perfect sense.

We also know that God is no respecter of persons. A plain factory hand who does his work faithfully pleases God just as much as a minister of the Word.

If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.