Quotes About Acceptance

People can cry much easier than they can change.

People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.

You'll find that there's a strange freedom in letting go of your denials and fears. When you're prepared to accept that you are the one who makes things happen in your own life, you stop fearing the unknown and start realizing that you have control over every situation. It's up to you to make this work, which means that you have absolute opportunity to make sure it does.

Voyeur" [Chorus:] I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. [Verse:] Cause I am flawed When I am through those doors Cause I am flawed Times unsure I should do whatever will make you feel secure [Chorus: x11] I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me. I don't mind, it was all me.

Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.

You do not even wish to be tortured?" "Well, I admit I had expected something of the sort. But none the less, I will not make a point of it," said Jurgen, handsomely. "No, I shall be quite satisfied even though you do not torture me at all." And

to accept people as they are. If I wait for others to be what I want them to be, I will never accept them. By looking at what my brother is not, instead of at what he is, I will never be able to sympathize with him, struggle with him, hurt with him, or rejoice with him.

I have been invaded by my own secrets and I must try to find out how to live with them.

Everything has always been here one way or another. So it must know what it's doing. And since I am part of this everything, a good part of me must be all right just the way it is, and the way it's doing it.

It seems that I always am and always have been an outsider. I've never really fit in. I was always too religious for my rowdy friends—they thought I was unbelievably hung up—and too rowdy for my religious friends—they were always praying for me.

he had let go of the need to earn God's love

But surely it was not God's will to give us a child with handicaps. God didn't do this, right?" "It's a mystery, Daddy. You won't be able to understand it all till you get here and see all of the rooms and one-inch pictures. But this you can trust: God is always good.

And now he had acquired the wisdom to admit that sometimes experienced his disdain for "weak, sick people" because he was frightened by any suggestion he could ever become that.

It's a place where members are growing as leaders and learning to take responsibility for the success of their team. Where members are learning to accept and transcend their differences, resolve conflict rather than avoid it, disarm themselves of their personal barriers, and communicate effectively by practicing assertiveness and active listening.

separated Peter from the vile and suicidal Judas was that he, Peter, had lived long enough to find his offense transformed—through no merit of his own—by the loving acceptance of Jesus. The humiliated Peter was, in the same moment, the forgiven Peter.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable—if the sea wants you and your time has come.

No one knows the encouragement needed to keep walking as every day I wake up smile and act as if everything is normal in which what does normal even mean

If you cannot teach a new dog old tricks then let him be and smile

Closeting your failures only prolongs your future

Losing your hair and the need to replenish it at all cost is overrated, being bald is a beautiful or manly thing embrace it

Not all Prodigals are downtrodden or live in the pig pen, quite the opposite for one third of all prodigals are very successful in life and their only hang up is the big brother not allowing them to come home

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone