Acceptance Quotes

"The most scandalous aspect of the scandal is that one gets used to it" "I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it. I say, Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I’ll be ready." "Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another." "I'm not perfect. I make mistakes." "In the end, everything is seen to be perfect " "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand " "When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees and some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever, and you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it, you just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are." "To understand is to forgive" "Our job is not to judge" "God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus " "Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be " "Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome." "You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found." "Accept the children the way we accept trees with gratitude because they are a blessing." "Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable"