Quotes About Acceptance

theory-induced blindness: once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws.

La adaptación a una nueva situación, sea buena o mala, consiste en gran parte en pensar cada vez menos en ella. En

Adaptation to a new situation, whether good or bad, consists in large part of thinking less and less about it.

I call it theory-induced blindness: once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws.

That was the moment when he grasped that nobody wanted to use their minds. People wanted peace. They wanted to eat and sleep and have other people be nice to them. What they didn't want to do was think.

Ich habe herausgefunden, dass der Mensch bereit ist, Unbill zu erfahren, aber viel Erkenntnis entgeht ihm, weil er den Schmerz fürchtet.

But why people? I asked. What does he care about people? He's a bear.

Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.

We slough off the responsibility to create ourselves by shrugging and claiming, "That's just the way I am.

I now realize that I habitually fight against a leisurely pace; I resist giving in to slowness.

You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.

This is God's holiness and justice revealed in Jesus Christ: that God justifies, accepts, and loves sinners despite their unworthiness.

Live life in the present. This moment is the only thing that's real. Worrying about the future and lamenting the past only crowds out the beauty of what is happening now.

Keep in mind that everyone is doing the best they possibly can and realize that if they knew better, they'd do better—therefore, be gentle.

Relax. Everything will resolve itself in time— this is the way of the world.

never trying to change others, but rather giving them the freedom to be as they are and seeing the beauty in them as is.

What is suffering? The desire for things to be other than they are. What is contentment? Accepting everything as it is.

When life becomes difficult, allow yourself to feel the pain in the moment. Go with it for as long as it lasts, and then watch it dissolve away. Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.

Become aware of what you feel. When you see parts of yourself that you don't like, just watch the feelings come and go without getting too caught up in what it is you're feeling. Everything passes—these emotions will, too.

Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are people who are happy with what they already have.

When you're young you say, "If I become a vegetable, pull the plug!" You get older, you hedge a little. "If I'm a turnip, kill me. If I'm a trendier vegetable, like radicchio, mist me twice a day and trim the wilted leaves."

being needed was not the same as being accepted.