Quotes About Acceptance

Teaching Fire a Lesson Fire is hot. That's what it does. If you get burned by fire, you can be annoyed at yourself, but being angry at fire doesn't do you much good. And trying to teach the fire a lesson so it won't be hot next time is certainly not time well spent. Our inclination is to give fire a pass, because it's not human. But human beings are similar, in that they're not going to change any time soon either.

Life's too short to fight the forces of change. Life's too short to hate what you do all day. Life's way too short to make mediocre stuff.

A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it.

Scarcity creates value, and what's scarce is a desire to accept what is and then work to change it for the better, not deny that it exists.

Normalization creates culture, and culture drives our choices, which leads to more normalization.

On the other hand, here's an example from By the Way Bakery, which my wife founded. It's the largest gluten-free bakery of its kind in the world. Their change? "We want to make sure no one is left out. By offering people gluten-free, dairy-free, and kosher baked goods that happen to be delicious, we let the entire community be part of special family occasions. We change hosts from exclusive to inclusive, and guests from outsiders to insiders." What

There's nothing that we can do to ensure that tomorrow turns out exactly as we hope it will.

Hope is not the same as reassurance. Hope is trusting yourself to have a shot to make things better. But we can hope without reassurance. We can hope at the same time that we accept that what we're working on right now might not work.

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. 2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. 3. There is no editing stage. 4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it. 5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.

The time we spend worrying is actually time we're spending trying to control something that is out of our control.

161. Chop Wood and Carry Water Layman Pang, more than a thousand years ago, wrote: My daily activities are not unusual, I'm just naturally in harmony with them. Grasping nothing, discarding nothing . . . Drawing water and chopping wood.

And most of all, it teaches people in the organization that it's okay not to be the best in the world.

There's a difference between passively accepting every element of your environment (and thus missing opportunities to exploit) and being wise enough to leave the unchangeable alone, or at least work around it.

Quitting requires you to acknowledge that you're never going to be #1 in the world.

People have been indoctrinated so completely by their jobs that they don't want to know how something works, they're willing to accept that perhaps the laws of nature don't work as they expect, and by the way, can I have the remote?

Siapa pun bisa tertarik oleh yang cantik-cantik dan memesona. Tetapi bisakah ketertarikan semacam itu disebut cinta kasih? Cinta kasih sejati sanggup menerima manusia-manusia yang kotor dan compang-camping.

Cinta kasih sejati sanggup menerima manusia-manusia yang kotor dan compang-camping.

Tapi apa yang ditetapkan Tuhan tentunya lebih baik daripada yang bisa diberikan atau yang terpikir oleh manusia.

We defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows what is't to leave betimes, let be. (Hamlet 5.2.217-224)

Lia, all that I am is what I do. I'm not meant for a tame sort of life, to dwell in bucolic splendor. I'm a city rat. I ache for it. I was made for it. And I wouldn't expect you to live as I do. I wouldn't want that for you. But its all I have to offer. Then--I accept. He brought a hand to his forehead and began to laugh. Its like being snared in a sugartrap. You wont listen.

nothing helped tea. It simply was what it was, which was boiling hot and flavorless.

It can be difficult sometimes for our families to accept us as people separate from who they are. As separate souls. When we're young, we're taught

When love fills one's heart, there should be no room for pride.

He felt her hands reach for his mask, untying it and removing it. He let her but stiffened when she ran a hand over his scarred cheek. "Did I hurt you?" "No. But you needn't touch me there." "I want to touch you everywhere." He stilled, allowing her to caress his scar then place a soft kiss on it. He had the sense that she cherished him, every part of him, even the damaged, scarred parts he didn't want anyone to see.