Quotes About Acceptance

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Letting go is not getting rid of. Letting go is letting be.

it is easy for parents to pass on unnecessary guilt, shame, and insecurity to their children because we fear the rejection of critical and judgmental people in our lives. So if I can help other parents understand the profound importance of accepting children as they are, perhaps I can save those children from some of the anguish I felt for many years.

We have to learn to lean into life as something beautiful even if it is not exactly what we expected. Trusting that God works all things together for the good despite the challenges we face is a gift of worship we give to God. Acceptance with humility must eventually come to each of us if we are to please God and not always fight against the limitations of our own family pattern.

Only God offers deep-down inner acceptance and approval. Only His unconditional love and acceptance will satisfy our longings. Only His ways bring vibrant health. Paul

we decided that if a woman truly understands how deeply she is loved, she is free to grow into the potential loveliness that God created her to have. When a woman feels truly loved, she is confident in herself, she is more generous of heart to be able to reach others, and her faith grows strong because of the deep acceptance she receives and lives in from her creator.

I have always told my children that they might as well decide to embrace God's will for their lives right where they are and engage in the present moment with as much faith and wisdom and skill as they can, because their circumstances are not going to miraculously change.

For Nathan, I wanted it to be a place where he could breathe out the pressure to perform, to conform, to always be "good" when what was defined as good was almost impossible for him, as God made him, to conform to.

When children understand that their parents accept them whether they are behaviourally perfect or not, that they can trust the grown-ups with anything, then they will be more likely to seek their parents' help when they have engaged in more serious misbehaviour.

Accepting reality and deciding to love our unique puzzle brings a freedom and sense of peace that can only come from surrendering to the life that we have been given.

When individuals are unconditionally accepted and set free to live into their own abilities, skills, and passions, they are more likely to be motivated to contribute from their own natural resources.

Live you life, Sido, whatever happens. Live in the moment, don't live with regret.' He took his last kiss.

Few people can claim they are born into the right period of history. Most of us have to make do with the times we find ourselves in.

It's the fricking reality that destroys plans.

Mijn vroegste herinneringen zijn allemaal gelukkige. Dat was voordat ik erachter kwam dat het mijn lot was om in een kast opgesloten te worden om daar te sterven.

I believed I owned the sky without realising that I'm destined to fall to the ground.

When you make a mistake or otherwise find yourself behaving like a human, the best practice is to leave it at the stream. Don't carry it around like that angry monk who kept obsessing about the other monk's behavior. Just lay that burden down and let it go.

You're not big enough, so you don't belong. Others are more deserving than you are.

Passing judgment means feeling the need to impose your standards on others, as if their job were to live up to your expectations.

But try to avoid being too hard on yourself or identifying too many items you need to get to work on,

Never ever get mad at yourself if you miss a ball, lose a point, or double fault.

Disappointment is sometimes a blessing in disguise.

Belief isn't required. Finch told me my father scoffed at it all, and he's just as dead as the other dukes." "So

The postmortem readjustment is one that many of us have had to make when our parents die. The parental door against which we have spent a lifetime pushing finally gives way, and we lurch forward, unprepared and disbelieving, into the rest of our lives.