Quotes About Acceptance

Not knowing… that could be as hard to handle as despair.

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt," Cullen said. "They always arrive too late to do any good.

There is no place on you I can't love, and love grants me entry . . .

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt," Cullen said. "They always arrive too late to do any good.

Remember this: the only way to live is to live—and death is always, always, part of living. We die over and over. Oh, the big death comes but once, but a thousand deaths arrive with every turn of the seasons—the death of a day or a lover, of a friend or a dream, death piled upon death. The slow sundering of years parts us even from who we once were and from the memories which parented us. Live anyway.

With those thousand deaths come a thousand births. Ten thousand, if we're alive enough to notice. Drink whatever comes to you, death or life or both together, drink it down, whether the draught be sweet or bitter. If you refuse the one, you won't be able to taste the other.

Understanding did not always wipe away pain, but it helped, surely?.... ...and if understanding did not eliminate troubles it eased the sense of betrayal- Li Lei

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.

You can't decide how someone will go about loving you.

But I just want a little more time to be angry. My hands still feel jittery from fear and fury but now i'm supposed to manage forgiveness. Or else I'm the monster.

Daria weighed five pounds, four ounces, and was in perfect health. But she was by far the smallest baby in the observation room. And every other baby in there had a full head of hair. The fact that she had no hair drove me crazy. I don't know why. That first night I was so upset that I cried all night long. I was thinking, I did a bad job. I didn't eat properly, I skated too long, and that's why Daria has no hair. I was such a sad, funny little mom, and very far from home.

It is a very difficult secret to understand that when we do not want to possess another selfishly, he or she will always love us. It is when we do not want to possess, when we do not make demand after demand, that the relationship will last.

Don't try to control the future," he would say. "Work on the one thing you can learn to control: your own responses.

But if you do not learn how to love, everywhere you go you are going to suffer.

One advertisement proclaims, A flat stomach is beautiful! For me, a flat ego is beautiful.

The body is not me; it is only the jacket which I wear. When this jacket is torn and tattered, the time has come for me to throw it away and put on a new jacket. Sri Krishna asks, "What is there to grieve about? What is so tragic about putting on a new jacket? Do you want to keep an old jacket that lets in cold air, makes you uncomfortable, and can no longer be used to serve others?

Past and future, those twin burdens, fall away, and here, in the present moment, we are free to love unconditionally, wholly.

All that you used to avoid will turn itself to great sweetness and exceeding joy.

Training the mind to be patient and calm under all circumstances, then, often begins with learning to wear our likes and dislikes loosely, casually, like a favorite old sweater.

After the sparkle fades you have to deal with what's left - whether you like what you see or not

Ye belong to me," he said, whispering the words against her mouth, "only ye refuse to admit it, even to yerself. But ye will. One day, Ye will. - Alysandir Mackinnon

What's the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it's over.

If his wife doesn't want him, I certainly don't, was my way of putting it.