acceptance

The older Kit gets, the less confident he feels judging other people as spouses or parents. These days, driving past the home of the Naked Hemp Society, he finds himself more curious than contemptuous about their easily ridiculed New Age ways. Why shouldn't they nurse their babies till age four? Why shouldn't they want to keep their children away from factory-farmed meats, from clothing soaked in fire-retardant chemicals, from dull-witted burned-out public school teachers whose tenure is all too easily approved? Why not frolic naked in the sprinkler---under the full moon, perhaps? Why not turn one's family into a small nurturing country protected by a virtual moat?

They may love you', she whispered, 'but they'll never understand.

Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.

Will is_ difficult,_ Jem said. __ut family is difficult. If I didn__ think the Institute was the best place for you, Tessa, I wouldn__ say it was. And one can build one__ own family. I know you feel inhuman, and as if you were set apart, away from life and love, but_ His voice cracked a little, the first time Tessa had heard him sound unsure. He cleared his throat. __ promise you, the right man won__ care.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.

Like an energy even an opportunity cannot be destroyed, if you don't accept, it goes to someone else.

The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses and people who accept truth soar.

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

Why do the birds return?_ __hat d__ou mean?_ Brandon looked lost all of a sudden. __ mean, they could go anywhere. They__e free_so why do they return to this place?_ Brandon grinned. __ause home__ home no matter how bleak.

My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.

Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.

The unlikely group that resulted from the union of five diverse characters in their late twenties operated with surprising harmony. This cohesiveness could be attributed to two factors: 1) everyone__ issues and embarrassing pasts were plainly disclosed prior to the gang__ formation and 2) the clan had been expressly conceived as a male support group.

You do not attain success when you associate with those in high positions, It comes when you accept yourself and realize that only you can take yourself to where your heart truly lies.

Even baldness becomes a beauty of a hairless head through the heart of acceptance

I am not a broken heart,and I am not your fault.

Open your eyes, mind and heart - and then (only then) you will see

With every moment of heart ache,I get a little closer to 'Acceptance' somehow,Denying to expect what's best,But to approve it's the best for now!