#acceptance

To love is to accept a soul entirely, not wishing that the person was otherwise, nor hoping for change, nor clinging to some ideal past. To love is to cherish the individual standing before you presently - charms, quirks, and all. To love is to give someone a piece of your heart that you will never, ever reclaim. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#charms #cherish #commitment #devotion #heart

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#antiquity #assurance #general #opinion #truth

* Love heals violence and all its sources ↗

— Bryant McGill

#forgive #love #forgiveness

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. ↗

— Nathaniel Branden

#acceptance #awareness #first #first step #second

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition. ↗

— Cyril Falls

#contrary #ensure #leadership #necessary #particularly

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. ↗

— Dan Brown

#be true #cannot #definition #faith #imagine

Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government. ↗

— Sam Farr

#among #corps #cultures #diverse #global

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times. ↗

— Chris Christie

#country #emotions #fathers #fleeing #founding

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about. ↗

— Steve Forbert

#acceptance #advantage #anyone #had #happen

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. ↗

— Anatole France

#against #believers #certain #constructing #degree