Quotes About Acceptance

All our efforts won't make water any wetter.

Don't judge people before you know them. Their story might surprise you!

The alternative to maximizing is to be a satisficer. To satisfice is to settle for something that is good enough and not worry about the possibility that there might be something better.

Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal body...

Third, Akiva adds a different perspective. The real problem, he suggests, is that no one understands the best way to rebuke another person. If the person doing the rebuking understood how to rebuke, rebuke would be more easily accepted by the other.

I've spent the last thirty years of my life telling the parents of gay and lesbian kids that as Christians, the only thing any of us can do is to accept and love our kids unconditionally, just as they are. I am certainly not about to do anything else when it comes to our own son.

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

non fui, fui, non sum, non curo—" I was not. I was. I am not. I care not.

Elsie was gross. Her eyes were squished above cheek bubbles of fat. Her chin rippled down her neck. She really didn't have a waist except where her stomach bulged out below her chest. Her legs looked like two bed pillows with the ends stuffed in shoes. I knew everyone hated having Elsie in our room.

Getting old.... Not so limber, dear friend, time for the bone factory? The little blue van. Your hands are covered with tiny pepperoni. Your knees predict your face. Your back stabs you, on the left side, twice a day. The belly's been discussed. The soul's shrinking to a microdot. We're ordering your rocking chair, size 42. Would you like something in Southern pine?

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Don't cry and don't rage. Understand.

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure.

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure….you are above everything distressing.

No burlarse, no lamentarse, no detestar, sino comprender

The first step towards true enlightenment is to lighten up on yourself.

Surrendering is not the giving up of something. True surrender is the total acceptance of yourself. You're not 'losing' anything in the surrender, the way your society usually means that word. You are not giving up anything in the sense of loss. Surrender means to open up: Open up to your total self; to give in and let go of the things you think you're supposed to be. Just be who you are. It will see you through.

All pain is the result of resistance to the natural self.

Stop arguing with creation.

If you're going to be in a traffic jam, at least enjoy the flavor. Make some toast.

For there is nothing more intolerable to mankind than suspense; when a thing is once decided, men can but endure whatever out of the catalogue of evils it is their misfortune to undergo.

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.