#accept

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#celebrate #differences #divide #inability #our

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis. ↗

— Trent Lott

#anything #eventually #folks #founded #free

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#fred-rogers #age

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

#accepted #any #authentic #become #between

With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten? ↗

— Marcello Mastroianni

#argue #because #besides #course #defects

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support. ↗

— Robin Cook

#action #agreement #britain #collective #commit

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory. ↗

— Jeff Cooper

#cannot #cases #citizen #development #even

Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#anger #rage #serenity #anger

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#escape #everything #i #i do #i think

If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable? ↗

— Daisy Donovan

#find #i #part #say #unacceptable