#acceptance

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks. ↗

— Dee Hock

#acceptance #any #around #centuries #device

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#inspiration #inspirational #smart #understanding #wise

to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again. ↗

— Ellen Bass

#hope #life #love #life

Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#commitment #expectations #love #motivational #respect

The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out at it, ‘Why did you take her? You, surrounded by all of your twinkling stars and infinite wonders and darkness. There’s already enough beauty where you are. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#closure #death #denial #grief #loss

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly. ↗

— Iris Chang

#conditions #could #economic #great #often

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#based #christianity #forgiveness #i #i think

I'm not talking about the blood ecstasy. I'm talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. She aches with it. She needs to be accepted for who she is so badly. And I was able to do that. Do you know good that felt? To be able to show someone that, yes, you are someone worth sacrificing for? That you like them for their faults and that you respect them for their ability to rise above them? ↗

— Kim Harrison

#acceptance-of-others #friendship #friendship-true-and-loyal #inspirational #love

If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#achieved #american #contract #crazy #entitled

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#distrust #division #more #need #now