Quotes About Acceptance

La mente flexible es responsiva y sensible a otros puntos de vista sin verse necesariamente en la obligación de aceptarlos.

pluralismo (aceptar las diferencias civilizadas y convivir con ellas sin reprimirlas ni ofenderse).

de lograr para cualquier persona, porque implica desprenderse de las expectativas y resignarse a que las cosas sigan su curso.

Es indudable que los resultados son importantes en un sinnúmero de situaciones de la vida y que siempre estarán presentes en nuestras acciones. Es muy difícil prescindir de ellos; incluso los santos están pendientes de alcanzar a Dios. Pero una cosa es aceptar su participación relativa y otra muy distinta ser esclavo de las consecuencias.

Si sólo te concentras en tus errores, no verás tus logros. Si sólo ves lo que te falta, no disfrutarás del momento, del aquí y el ahora. Rabindranath Tagore decía: "Si de noche lloras por el Sol, no verás las estrellas".

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.

Let us leave the labels to those who have little else wherewith to cover their nakedness.

He had lost the bright gods, and he had not been accepted by the dark. He was in a no soul's land, and in its isolation his own soul was withdrawn, small and heavy as a stone within him, and about his evil deed. No wonder it could not take wing and make the heralding music. That was the whole of reality now, the little stone inside, and outside the cold, dark ravine and the inescapable watcher.

The empathy we have is founded on the fact that God has put this person in my life. In other word, if this is true this allows me to be present to all kinds of people who I do not like.

Sooner or later you must confront this demon of comparison.

One of his Prayers of the Faithful was always "for those who are misunderstood.

As we begin to acknowledge our own inner shadow, we become more tolerant of the shadow in others.

Many things in life aren't fair, but we must learn to accept them as God's will and move on.

I decided that my life was a gift from God, and my happiness was not dependent upon children, a husband, or any of the other things I had once thought were the source of happiness. It's about being able to accept the bitter and sweet parts of life.~Lois Troyer

Our faith teaches us that when our time on earth is over, God will call us home no matter what. We just need to accept His will and move on with life.

Don't try to figure out love, my friend. When two people fall for each other, they can be as different as sandpaper and polished cotton - yet the feelings are there, and you can't do a thing to stop them.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

As I swept the last bit of dust, I made a covenant with myself: I will accept. Whatever will be, will be. I have a life to lead. I recalled words a friend had told me, the philosophy of her faith. "Life is a journey and a struggle," she had said. "We cannot control it, but we can make the best of any situation." I was indeed in quite a situation. It was up to me to make the best of it.

Stoic needs a good sense of humor.

Whenever someone does you a wrong or speaks ill of you, remember that he is doing what he thinks is proper. He can't possibly be guided by what appears right to you, but only by what appears right to him. So if he sees things wrongly, he is the one who is hurt, because he is the one who has been deceived. . . . Starting from this reasoning, you will be mild toward whoever insults you. Say each time, "So it seemed to him." Epictetus, Enchiridion

Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once. Don't always be thinking about what sufferings, and how many, might possibly befall you. Ask instead, in each present circumstance: "What is there about this that is unendurable and unbearable?" You will be embarrassed to answer. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.36

Remember that you are an actor in a play of whatever kind the producer may choose. If a short one, short; if a long one, long. If he wants you to play a beggar, see that you act even this part naturally; or a cripple, or a ruler, or an ordinary citizen. Your task is to give a good performance of the part that you are assigned. To select the part belongs to someone else.