Quotes About Acceptance

The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes... Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.

The earth is not just for the clever and the strong. It must be possible even for weak and pitiful creatures — like himself and this old dog — to make some contribution in their lifetime.

I felt a surge of love for my aunt. We disagreed about so many things, yet here was family: the people who kept dancing with you, even after the music stopped.

As-is. Every woman needs a man who loves her as-is. He doesn't want to change anything about her." She sighed. "Oh, no greater safety in this world than that kind of love. And then life turns into the most grand and wonderful adventure.

Everything passes. Nothing is forever. Least of all love. Cameron

Kelly, before you walked out there, the audience thought you were just a beautiful, untouchable dream, a fantasy, out of reach. When you tripped and fell, it showed them that you're human, and they adored you for it

It was as though her emotions had been worn out. She went from hatred to anger and, finally, to a resigned acceptance.

Hostility comes in all ages, sizes and shapes

For each of us, time is a thief of glory. What gives meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept.

For each of us, time is a thief of flory. What give meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

There are no mistakes

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

I never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member

When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality. . . I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.

All neurotics, and many others besides, take exception to the fact that 'inter urinas et faeces nascimur.

Nevertheless several things might be said in criticism of his disappointment. Strictly speaking it is not justified, for it consists in the destruction of an illusion. Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Barátom így szólt hozzám akkor az Andrássy-úton: Semmi emberi nem idegen tÅ'lem, mire én - pszichoanalitikus tapasztalatokra célozva - megjegyeztem: Messzebb is mehetnél ennél, és beismerhetnéd, hogy semmi állati nem idegen tÅ'led.

Anthropomorphism, I've decided, is inescapable, and though I might try to hide it I no longer fight it.

His father used to accuse his mother of not being able to let anything go. She needed to learn to put the past behind her, instead of dwelling on what couldn't be changed. Don't be like your mother, he warned Cole, unless you want to be depressed.

But that's what age is, isn't it? Slo-mo castration.

The exhaustion of mourning was my thought.