Quotes About Acceptance

Fitting in emerges as the primary barrier to belonging.

I don't know. I really don't. All I know is that my life is better when I assume that people are doing their best. It keeps me out of judgment and lets me focus on what is, and not what should or could be.

the need for control is so strong that we'd rather have something be our fault than succumb to the bumper-sticker wisdom of "shit happens.

Both disappointment and regret arise when an outcome was not what we wanted, counted on, or thought would happen.

Belonging is being somewhere where you want to be, and they want you. Fitting in is being somewhere where you really want to be, but they don't care one way or the other. Belonging is being accepted for you. Fitting in is being accepted for being like everyone else. I get to be me if I belong. I have to be like you to fit in.

With disappointment, we often believe the outcome was out of our control (but we're learning more about how this is

Last, perfectionism is not a way to avoid shame. Perfectionism is a function of shame.

We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.

It's easier to live disappointed than it is to feel disappointed. It feels more vulnerable to dip in and out of disappointment than to just set up a camp there. You sacrifice joy, but you suffer less pain.

Men and women who have a deep sense of love and belonging believe they are worthy of love and belonging.

Healthy-striving self-talk: "I want this for me. I want to feel better and be healthier. The scale doesn't dictate if I'm loved and accepted. If I believe that I'm worthy of love and respect now, I will invite courage, compassion, and connection into my life. I want to figure this out for me. I can do this.

We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.

The greatest need that any child has is the need for unconditional love.' (Boyd 2003)

in due time you'll learn there is life after a lost love!

The past can only be accepted. It can't be forgotten, edited or erased. And it can never be changed. Anonymous

Always having to rely on herself, she had a hard time accepting the kindness of others, and her first instinct was always to say no.

This is the kind of person you marry—someone who loves the worst parts of you, someone who knows how to make you laugh even when you're mad as hell.

You can be whoever you want to be. You belong to me and I belong to you, no matter what. And I will love you no matter what.

Nadie puede desafiar al destino.

Ever since learning of Anna's betrayal, she had refused to think of him in any way except as Ned's father. She

Hiding from my history won't change who or what I am.

Love has no colour, love has no gender, it is found everywhere and anywhere, only when accepted.

if one couldn't be loved, one could at least be warm, comfortable and full, always.

What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?