Quotes About Acceptance

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

The books which were actively excluded (Chapter 11) were in nearly all cases considerably later and less reliable than those that were accepted.

You will always face difficulties in prayer. Just accept it.

The analyst's vulnerability has to be greater even than the vulnerability any other patient has to learn to accept. It is a good thing for an analyst to learn early that every patient suffers from the analytic process, but the vulnerability that the analyst must learn to accept goes beyond the humility that every physician must find toward the mystery of wounding and healing. The

Accept the unknown. There are no secondary characters. Each one is silhouetted against the sky. All have the same stature. Within a given story some simply occupy more space.

Most people, she said, can't stand the truth. It's too bad but there it is, most people can't stand it.

He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back.He thought they were old friends.

What is the boy now, who has lost his ball, What, what is he to do? I saw it go Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then Merrily over-there it is in the water!

Pioneering is not feeling well, not Indians, beasts. Not all their riddling can forestall one leaving. Sam, your uncle has had to go fróm us to live with God. 'Then Aunt went too?' Dear, she does wait still. Stricken: 'Oh. Then he takes us one by one.

If you believe in the Gospel what you like, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

Apart from Scientologists and born-again Christians, junkies are probably the worst people in the world to live with. Even other junkies will tell you that.

We should always remember," Candy concluded solemnly, "that what we are is not what we plan for ourselves, but what God plans for us.

Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.

I remember a friend of mine once telling me that we hate what we fear in ourselves

J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you.

To be shame-bound means that whenever you feel any feeling, need or drive, you immediately feel ashamed. The dynamic core of your human life is grounded in your feelings, needs and drives. When these are bound by shame, you are shamed to the core.

Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial.

Love is for everybody.

When we let go of insisting that we are who we think we are and that the world should give us exactly and only what we want, all things shine forth.

to have beliefs different from ours.

Don't bother explaining—I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

The greatest happiness in life is the knowledge that we are loved and valued for what we are, not for what we have or what we can do.

We do not look on death the way you do, farang. My closest colleagues grasp my arm and one or two embrace me. No one says sorry. Would you be sorry for a sunset?

To make a good death is to proceed gracefully into a better body and a better life. The consequences of a bad death are hard to look at. You will not make a good death is a power curse; it makes Fuck you sound like a benediction.