Quotes About Acceptance

The only way to deal with fear is to treat it like an unwelcome guest. If you keep entertaining it, you'll never be rid of it.

As I take her gift, Danielle says, "For you, Ruthie. Welcome back to the world.

Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends — and hardly ever our own grown children.

Sie nahmen mich wahr und ließen mich sein, wie ich war. (Bei denen bleib ich.)

the more we have to put up with, the less tolerant we get

There are lots of superheroes with different superpowers, and some of them are big and flashy, like super strength and super speed, and molecular restructuring, and force fields. But these abilities are really not so different from the superpower stuff that old Jiko could do, like moving superslow, or reading people's minds, or appearing in doorways, or making people feel okay about themselves by just being there.

Shortly before the monsoon, the heat becomes very intense. It is said that the more intense it becomes the more abundantly it will draw down the rains, so one wants it to be as hot as can be. And by that time one has accepted it -- not got used to but accepted; and moreover, too worn-out to fight against it, one submits to it and endures.

I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.

Change works both ways. You must accept those moments, experience them, and let them go. Because if you allow yourself to get stuck in that minute, nothing will ever change.

Don't hate anyone," she had said. "It's quite useless and harms the hater while it does nothing at all to the hated.

I don't judge people. I don't think we should/

Their pain was bigger than their love. You had to forgive them for that.

Yeah, he'd said, maybe it's just my idea, but really it always hurts, the times it don't hurt is when we just forget, we just forget it hurts, you know, it's not just because my belly's all rotten, everybody always hurts. So when it really starts stabbing me, somehow I feel sort of peaceful, like I'm myself again.

There in that pool stained with green blood, he had learned two things: one was that all the pain stopped when you stopped fighting death; and the other was that as long as you could still hear your heart beating, you had to keep fighting back.

He spent the afternoon watching the indicator light turn from red to orange to green and thought about how useless it was to be angry at anybody about an abstract principle...How could any idea that drives a man away from the people who love him be considered sound?

Forget about homework and you get in trouble with your teacher. Forget about taxes and you get in trouble with your government...But forget about hate and you know what happens? You just don't hate someone anymore.

I hope I can help guys come out and say, 'All right, dude, I got a manicure... and I liked it.'

How can this be happening to me? Cowboy Denny Holliday, destroyed by a bear.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

Anakin frowned. "I don't want things to change." "But you can't stop the change," Shmi said, "any more than you can stop the suns from setting.

Someday I'll be a weather-beaten skull resting on a grass pillow, Serenaded by a stray bird or two. Kings and commoners end up the same, No more enduring than last night's dream.

Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.

Someday I'll be a weather-beaten skull resting on a grass pillow, Serenaded by a stray bird or two. Kings and commoners end up the same, No more enduring than last night's dream.

The plants and flowers I raised about my hut I now surrender To the will Of the wind