Quotes About Acceptance

Searching for self implied either not liking who you are or wanting to escape who you've been.

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.

A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.

At every place and time throughout your life, take frankly what that place and time can give you, and think of its limitation as advantage rather than harm. —JOHN RUSKIN

It's unrealistic to expect to be completely accepted and understood in life.

Be reckless. What's the worst that can happen? We're hoping to be surprised by some unrestrained part of ourselves that can't be expressed in our ordinary lives. The discoveries we're after can only surprise us when we're ready to accept whatever we uncover.

Don't judge your creation. Accept it with gratitude. What we express is a valuable part of ourselves and worthy of our respect.

You deserve to be happy. You also deserve to be you

everyone hated her, and some people actually knew she was a good mother. It helped to rekindle her faith in herself. "I

The life we plan isn't always the life we get, but it's usually the life we were meant to lead.

I don't know. We're good together, but I have a lot of baggage." "Everyone does. It's nice when you can find someone willing to hold the bags.

You deserve to be happy and you deserve to be you. One True Love. Love

I don't want you anymore. I don't want to be second choice, second best, second whatever. I don't want to be the one who trails after you like some stupid lost puppy dog. I don't want to be the one you got stuck with after the one you loved got away.

On the one hand, Sylvie loves the feeling of being like everybody else... on the other hand when she feels most like a freak is when shes getting away with not being one.

You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why Because it feels sooo good.

Que quiere una mujer? Ella quieres ser respetada, que la escuches la entiendas, quiere flores, quiere reírse, quiere confiar en ti, no quiere leerte la mente, quiere ser valorada por quien es y en ocasiones ella solo quiere que te calles y dejes de arreglarlo todo. Joan of Arcadia

The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead for a month was seeing him every day at work.

She had come to terms with her lack of beauty, but never with her lack of genius in the single thing she had ever wanted.

After long years of solitary meditation, Jenny had come to accept that, for her, magic was a depth and a stillness rather than the moving brilliance that it was for the great.

She felt angry enough to curse them, but in her heart she knew that she could lay no greater curse upon them than to be what they already were.

We recognize the people we love no matter how much they change.

Life is hard and then we die!

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

One thing is clear to me: we, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.