Quotes About Acceptance

It turns out to be the place of true belonging, and it's the bravest and most sacred place you'll stand.

Yes, we all struggle with shame and the fear of not being enough.

Again, no matter what you do, you can't control other people's responses.

Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don't exist in the human experience. We must walk in the arena, whatever it may be.

We may not always have a sense of belonging on the recess playground or at a big, fancy conference, but in that moment we knew that we belonged where it mattered the most—at home.

In another very unexpected discovery, my research also taught me that there's no such thing as selective emotional numbing. There is a full spectrum of human emotions and when we numb the dark, we numb the light.

Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don't exist in the human experience.

Belonging, on the other hand, doesn't require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.

Who has earned the right to hear my story?" If we have one or two people in our lives who can sit with us and hold space for our shame stories, and love us for our strengths and struggles, we are incredibly lucky. If we have a friend, or a small group of friends, or family who embraces our imperfections, vulnerabilities, and power, and fills us with a sense of belonging, we are incredible lucky.

I think the most important line is "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. Imagine a world in which we honor that place in ourselves and others rather than hiding it, ignoring it, or pretending it doesn't exist because of fear or shame.

I have moved from the self-righteousness and resentment of my SFD to a new way of looking at the world.

Once everyone understands their vale, we stop hustling for worthiness and lean into our gifts.

Those who feel lovable, who love, and who experience belonging, simply believe they are worthy of love and belonging.

In fact, in my research I found that shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we can change and do better.

fitting in is one of the greatest barriers to belonging. Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be in order to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn't require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.

Leonard Cohen's song "Anthem" comes from how much comfort and hope they give me as I put "enough" into practice: "There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

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.

In The Gifts of Imperfection, I write, "Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

Vulnerabilidade não é conhecer vitória ou derrota; é compreender a necessidade de ambas, é se envolver, se entregar por inteiro.

Dissonance is disquieting because to hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and, as Albert Camus observed, we are creatures who spend our lives trying to convince ourselves that our existence is not absurd.

Quick and dirty wins the race. Perfection is the enemy of done. Good enough is really effin' good. Nicholas

Anger becomes an acceptable substitute for fear, which is forbidden.

Are we willing to show up and be seen when we can't control the outcome?

Why do we cause each other so much pain, and why do we turn away from hurt when the only way to the other side of struggle is through it? I don't know why it's so hard to understand—I've been known to run from vulnerability like someone is chasing me. Granted, not very often anymore. It just takes so much more energy and creates so much more emotional churn than having a seat and asking hurt or uncertainty to pull up a chair.