“As I accepted the change of the golden hair of my childhood to the reddish-brown hair of my youth without regret, so I also accept my silver hair-and I am ready to accept the time when my hair and the rest of my clay garment returns to the dust from which it came, while my spirit goes on to freer living. It is the season for my hair to be silver, and each season has its lessons to teach. Each season of life is wonderful if you have learned the lessons of the season before. It is only when you go on with lessons unlearned that you wish for a return.” IfsLife IsSpiritWishAcceptingTeachWonderfulChildhoodYouthReadyRegretHairGoes OnReturnLessonsSeasonsAgingAcceptedGoldenDustBrownSilverClayGarmentsSeasons Of LifeBrown HairGolden HairLife Is Wonderful Author:Peace Pilgrim
“To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting it as a gift.” KnowsMeanDoeSpiritualAttitudeAcceptingChildhood Book:A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation
“Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.” FeelsUsedAcceptingChildhoodShameEdgesHospitalsAlcoholismEmbarrassment Author:Augusten Burroughs
“I was raised in a religion that I never felt embraced me. That wasn't her fault. I had this amazing childhood. My mother is of her generation. If I'm going to ask her to accept me exactly as I am, I have to give her the same. She has read part of the book, but my sisters told her which chapters not to read!” IfsGivingBookMotherAsksFeltAcceptingGenerationsChildhoodFaultsRaisedMy SisterChaptersAccept Me Author:Leslie Jordan
“Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.” ThinkingAcceptingFantasyChildhoodYour Children Author:El-P
“The role you've been ascribed in childhood can twist or break apart or seem outgrown, especially when you have your own family and begin to see your own childhood from a different angle. You remember. You reassess. I think that was the kernel of the novel for me. This idea that you change but that your family, the people you were born into, might find that change hard to accept. You no longer fit the mold you've always been ascribed. When the adult children in the book converge back on their small family home there's a sense that they don't fit there anymore.” PeopleThinkingChildrenBookDifferentHomeRememberAcceptingBreakNovelChildhoodFitOur Family Author:Maggie O'Farrell
“Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice” Has BeensOrderIndividualNaturalResultsAcceptingVisionViolenceShareChildhoodTaughtRevolutionProfoundClimate ChangeInjusticeActiveContraryOppressionRejectionGlobal WarmingEthicalVeganNonviolencePassiveRefusalVeganismParadigmNatural OrderClassismFrancione Author:Gary L. Francione
“My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.” MadeKidsFunAcceptingChildhoodToughLonelyRidiculeDyslexic Author:Tom Cruise
“Everyone’s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don’t know if I’m just giving up with this conclusion or resigning myself — or maybe for the first time connecting with reality. How do we know the pain or another’s earlier years, let alone all that he drags with him since along the way at best a lot of leeway is needed for the other — yet how much is unhealthy for one to bear. I think to love bravely is the best and accept — as much as one can bear.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayGivingYearsFirstsPlayRealityPainAcceptingWonderChildhoodBearsNeededGiving UpFirst TimeConclusionDragConnectingUnhealthyResigning Author:Marilyn Monroe