Quotes About Acceptance

Each of us has always hoped that a stranger would come who would scatter holy water on the image of the other and lay it for ever

In any class I feel at home, and I am never accepted, because of the traces I bear of my other origins. This does not, instance by instance, cause me any pain, but my experience of rejection has been an agony.

I got dosed by you and Closer than most to you and What am I supposed to do Take it away I never had it anyway

Everyone is perfect, yet none of us feels that way because our culture teaches us to hate and criticize ourselves.

Solange wir das Glück suchen oder herbeisehnen, erfahren wir es nicht. Glück ist vielleicht das, was uns hinterher als solches erscheint. Wenn wir aber ganz darauf vergessen, ist es kurz zu haben. Glück widerfährt uns manchmal, wenn wir ganz wir selbst sind.

Als Abenteurer habe ich weder gegen die Natur angekämpft noch mich in ihr verloren. Ich habe gelernt, in ihr zu lesen, sie als gegeben zu respektieren und nicht weiter mit dem Leben zu hadern. Damit bin ich zu meinen Erkenntnissen über die Menschennatur gekommen und zu dem Mut, den Sinn in meinem Tun selbst zu definieren. Niemand hat mich dazu gezwungen. Ständig in der Wildnis unterwegs und vor das Nichts gestellt, zwingt uns die Natur zur Besinnung auf uns selbst.

Auch die Sinnfrage stellt sich mir nicht mehr. Weil ich loszulassen gelernt habe. Wer den Sinn immerzu sucht, weil er abhandengekommen ist, wird ihn ebenso wenig finden wie das Glück. Beide sind verwurzelt und flüchtig zugleich. In uns selbst.

Friendship requires trust, empathy, and acceptance. I don't want to feel that I have to wear a disguise in front of my friends; otherwise, the friendship is worth nothing. Friendship means being accepted by a person for the way you are, and vice versa.

Vivre les malheurs à l'avance, c'est les subir deux fois.

And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information a kind of calm. They no longer tried, with a bright and desperate effort, to sustain a conversation with somebody's brother, somebody's usher, somebody's roommate, somebody's roommate's usher's brother... The category of wallflower who had given up on all this was very quiet, not indifferent, only quiet. And she always brought a book.

You can tell me anything, her eyes say, because I will see the beauty in everything you say.

Like most people born into a religious tradition, my faith was as familiar to me as my skin, and just as disregardable.

Jesus, on the other hand, was America. He was the central figure in America's national drama. Accepting him into my heart was as close as I could get to feeling truly American.

If you cannot change the kings," the Sufis argued, "then change yourself.

Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have.

Fear wants our answers to be neat and pretty; freedom doesn't care if the truth is messy.

Fear is the cause and effect of the thoughts, feelings and actions that prohibit you from accepting yourself and realizing your full potential

The more you embrace your humanity, the more divine your experience

There's nothing wrong with you, it's just fear.

You can only have connection or perfection. You can't have both!

Sam Keen. You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.

Rabbits need dignity and, above all, the will to accept their fate.

What is, is what must be.