Quotes About Acceptance

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

but between reject and not—reject. You can decide that the probability that you are wrong is so small that you should not reject the hypothesis. You can decide that the probability that you are wrong is so large that you should reject the hypothesis. But with any probability short of zero that you are wrong—certainty rather than uncertainty—you cannot accept a hypothesis.

The great danger of law in modern student affairs practice is apathy, acceptance, and blind disobedience.

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.

I believe in love and wisdom which have created life. I believe that they have the power to recreate the world. I believe that the living love and wisdom can change our life, our society and our homes. When we accept love and wisdom, truth and righteousness will come. The angels will descend from heaven and plant good fruits in our souls.

De weduwe kuste haar vingers en legde ze daarna tegen mijn voorhoofd. 'Zet Sasja uit je hoofd,' zei ze. 'Leef je leven op de plek waar je bent.

Dodie: "Mama, Jamie's up on the hill and he's f***g a goat!" Mama: "Well, it's Jamie's goat, ain't it?" -Peter Manso illustrates the brash wit pervasive in the Brando family with this exchange between Dodie Brando, Marlon's mother, and her mother in-law.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

The young are not curious about their elders, they just accept them for what they are. But I wish now I could go back and ask her about her life, fill in all those gaps. But of course, you can't go back.

Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth.

I'm not going to love again," she declared in little clipped words. It was though she bit off the very end of each. "I can't.

It's alright," he told her. "Well, really it's not. It'll never be alright, but you get, what's the word? Inured?

Knowing" can be useful, but learning not to know creates a powerful openness that is inconceivable until it is experienced.

We discover that the richness of life isn't all created by people, events, and acquisitions, but by our ability to open up and fully be with whatever is occurring—present in heart, body, mind, and connecting fully with others and with life.

Better by far you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad.

Judas is here a symbol of all our failures, and Christ's actions demonstrate his unconditional acceptance. Judas helps to remind us of Christ's message that he came for the sick rather than the healthy, and that he loves and accepts us as we are.

But the problem is that the fundamental structure of scapegoating is not broken in the acceptance of the latest "other." If the underlying scapegoat mechanism is not decommissioned, then new "others" will always arise to protect the group from its own internal conflicts. For

In order to destroy the scapegoat mechanism, a different strategy must be adopted. Instead of trying to create a community where there is no outsider, the real answer lies in understanding that there is a sense in which we are all outsiders. In concrete terms, this means that a community faces its own lack, rather than ignoring it and thus creating a scapegoat who must carry it.

Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world.

No: what I have tried to remember, and occasionally achieved, is that sense of handing myself over to the moment I was in, trusting that what had brought me there would carry me through, allowing things to transpire not with effort, but with something like ease, even grace.

By failing to let others be themselves before God and move at their own pace, we inevitably project onto them our own discomfort with their choice to live life differently than we do.

the extent to which we love and respect ourselves is the extent to which we will be able to love and respect others.