Quotes About Acceptance

The perception that vulnerability is weakness is the most widely accepted myth about vulnerability and the most dangerous.

Voltaire: "Não deixe o perfeito ser o inimigo do bom.

sadness is important and we need it. Feeling sad is a normal response to loss or defeat, or even the perception of loss or defeat. To be human is to know sadness.

To feel is to be vulnerable. Believing that vulnerability is weakness is believing that feeling is weakness. And, like it or not, we are emotional beings.

No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough.

Being all light is as dangerous as being all dark, simply because denial of emotion is what feeds the dark.

Love and belonging will always be uncertain.

Evolutionary theory suggests that we should embrace all of our emotions, as each has an important role to play under the right circumstances.

Love belongs with belonging.

deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible human need

Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot in common with Love. — ELIZABETH GILBERT

We have to believe we are enough in order to say, "Enough!

When we are experiencing shame, we are steeped in the fear of being ridiculed, diminished or seen as flawed. We are afraid that we've exposed or revealed a part of us that jeopardizes our connection and our worthiness of acceptance.

Connection to a larger humanity gives people more freedom to express their individuality without fear of jeopardizing belonging.

The heart of compassion is really acceptance. The better we are at accepting ourselves and others, the more compassionate we become.

No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It's going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am brave and worthy of love and belonging.

We can never become completely resistant to shame; however, we can develop the resilience we need to recognize shame, move through it constructively and grow from our experiences.

It doesn't matter if the group is a church or a gang or a sewing circle or masculinity itself, asking members to dislike, disown, or distance themselves from another group of people as a condition of "belonging" is always about control and power. I think we have to question the intentions of any group that insists on disdain toward other people as a membership requirement. It may be disguised as belonging, but real belonging doesn't necessitate disdain.

When a person adapts to a loss grief is not over." It doesn't mean that we're sad the rest of our lives, it means that "grief finds a place" in our lives.

the people who love me, the people I really depend on, were never the critics who were pointing at me while I stumbled. They weren't in the bleachers at all. They were with me in the arena. Fighting for me and with me. . . . it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands. The people who love me and will be there regardless of the outcome are within arm's reach.

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors." When

Shame and love are grounded in vulnerability and tenderness.

realized that only one thing separated the men and women who felt a deep sense of love and belonging from the people who seem to be struggling for it. That one thing is the belief in their worthiness.

It's as simple and complicated as this: If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.