Quotes About Acceptance

Es muy difícil hacerse amar en una tumba —le dije. »Ã¢â'¬â€Uno tiene las "citas" que puede —respondió en un tono muy especial.

All I wanted was to be loved for myself

Welcome the back talk, because it's completely natural and normal. It's actually a sign that the new idea you've planted in your mind is taking root.

like my body—I may not control the expiration date, but I can certainly influence the quality of the shelf life.

Mental illness is often in the eye of the beholder. Too often on this PLANET it refers to those who think and act differently from the majority.

THE ONLY MADNESS GREATER THAN CHALLENGING FATE IS ACCEPTING IT.

High-risk leadership beckons many, but few accept the call.

I do not make mistakes, little monkey. A monkey I intended you to be. A monkey you are.

Don't you think you're trying a little too hard to hold on to the past? Maybe, but don't you think you're trying a little too hard to run away from it? Not everybody's past is like yours, Aang. Some of us have to run away just to... just to live.

What I didn't know was that I don't need to act. I might want to act—just for the love of acting—but not because I need to earn the right to feel loved by God. I've got something much better. . . . I feel loved by the person I love.

I have tried hard to punish myself for that, and certain other things. No more. Let the Outsider punish me; we deceive ourselves when we think that we can measure out justice to ourselves. I wanted to end my guilt. What was just about that? I should feel guilty. I deserve it.

All beds became deathbeds at last.

I love you, but you are another death, a death that has stayed with me and befriended me as the old death in the lake did, but death all the same.

People don't want other people to be people. They throw names over them and lock them in, but I don't want you to let them lock you in.

A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.

Where there is no repentance, forgiveness is only permission by another name. I

Death is nothing, and for that reason you must fear it.

it's not wise to deny everything you can't understand.

I had been crazy since I was born, and now I was sane and it felt wonderful. The wind and the waves were sitting in that cave with me twisting thread, and nature was not something outside anymore.

Death is nothing, and that's why you should fear it.

People get old, get sick and die. Or they die suddenly. Or their deaths drag on forever. My friend Tory is dying a slow, excruciatingly painful death of bone cancer. Eight friends have died of breast cancer. Polar bears are dying. Honeybees are vanishing. The oceans are drying up. There is a part of me that wants my money back. That wants to say, 'I didn't sign up for this. I don't like the way this whole thing is set up and I won't participate in it.

You can't be stuck if you're not trying to get anywhere. Which, to me, means that when you stop fighting with the way things are, magic happens. You relax, open, and any action you take comes from alignment with what's true.

When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation--not resistance, not warfare, not fights.

If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.