Quotes About Acceptance

Moving on doesn't mean you loved my dad any less, you know.

Alors voilà, nous y sommes. Tu es gravée dans mon coeur, Clark. Tu l'as été dès le premier jour où tu es arrivée avec tes fringues à la con, tes blagues moisies et ton incapacité absolue à dissimuler ce que tu ressens. Tu as changé ma vie infiniment plus que cet argent ne pourra changer la tienne.

what we need the most we resist the most.

The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

Breathe and let be.

Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

The more you open to connection, the more you get. The more you believe you are worthy of connection, the more connection appears in your life.

I understood, as I had explored in this book, that death is not just an end, but sometimes a beginning, a part of life. It can be a gift. You grieve what you love. You love what you grieve.

I cherish the predictability of these creatures, their sociability, their contented acceptance of life. I wish I possessed even one of those traits. I'm working on it.

Being able to use the word "geek" has helped me a lot to define myself, but not as a mold for me to fit myself into, as a template to help accentuate my differences.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

Sometimes you had to accept the impossible, because nothing else made any sense.

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

In our finest hours, though, the soul of the country manifests itself in an inclination to open our arms rather than to clench our fists;

In our finest hours...the soul of the country manifests itself in an inclination to open our arms rather than to clench our fists; to look out rather than to turn inward; to accept rather than to reject. In so doing, America has grown ever stronger, confident that the choice of light over dark is the means by which we pursue progress.

be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others

But we know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don't?

Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories