Quotes About Acceptance

The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all. -Nora Halliday

Some people don't want to be sober. They don't want reality. After life trips them, they choose to stay facedown in the mud.

perhaps she figured I was already a highly forgiving person, that I did my best to treat shortcomings like hobos I'd found dozing on my porch: take them in and maybe they'll work for you.

I suggest you resolve yourself to your fate

I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

There's no human way to get to it, not even with all the dynamite in the world. So you leave it at that. And you move on.

I closed my eyes, letting my fear wash over me. I had to bathe in it, accept it, drink it down, let it cover me like sludge, so it became nothing so extraordinary, nothing so fearsome—and I could think.

Non si ha il diritto di autocompatirsi finché i propri problemi sono ancora accettabili... E quando invece non lo sono più, il solo modo di sopportare l'insopportabile è di riderci sopra.

Si je n'étais pas intégré à moi-même, je ne pourrais jamais m'intégrer.

On se calme comme on peut.

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Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

Fritz Perls says that the more deeply grounded we are in our actual reality, the more possibility exists for actual change. In other words, acceptance of the present must precede action.

Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.

My pregnant wife came home with her previously long hair that I loved chopped off and replaced with a short, mommish haircut. She asked what I thought and could tell by my face. She had put a mom's need for convenience before being a wife. She wept.

The church was custom built by Jesus, and we are all works in progress. We do not expect people to get their sin in order before attending church any more than a hospital expects people to get healed before they show up.

Everyone is in a tribe, and the sooner we realize we are not each unique, like a snowflake—a special, one-of-a-kind person, just like Mama said—the sooner we will make sense of ourselves and the spiritual cul-de-sac we call home. You are likely not unique, particularly special

The truth is, righteous anger is the right response to sin and far more consistent with God's character than faking happiness, approval, or acceptance.

As I grow in my prayer life, my soul becomes a delightfully cluttered attic, filled with random graces that do not all fit together in some perfectly ordered system. The purpose of some graces will be immediately apparent in my life, but the meaning of others might evade me for a while. I must resist the temptation to clean up the messiness of my graces and must not try to come up with immediate answers for the questions that arise from them.

Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom

Making one's life into a meditation is different from using meditation to escape from life.

The ability to see things the way they are, not to expect constant gratification but to understand that all things are limited, is what allows for personal growth.

Intimacy puts us in touch with fragility, he realized, and the acceptance of fragility opens us to intimacy.

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.