Quotes about Acceptance

the greatest barrier to intimacy is fear -- fear of being known, fear of being rejected, fear of facing the truth about ourselves... ...We are afraid to be known because at some deep level we fear that the truth about us, when out in the open and reflected back to us through someone else's eyes, will be shocking to ourselves.

We all need a place where we can give voice to the worst that torments our souls and still be held.

I really believe things happen as they're supposed to and in the time that they're supposed to.

I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.

"Americans do not presume to equate God's purposes with any purpose of our own...."[Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God's plan unfolds in his time, not our own.

I tell people all the time, preached a couple Sundays about it. I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out.

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

Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.

Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.