Quotes About Acceptance

Don't let anybody ever tell you life's fair. Not as long as I'm in it.

It was a good day to die, but nobody did.

If you're not a beautiful monster, then you're a villager," he said

What he didn't say was that you don't get cold-resistant because your jackets suck, you just stop complaining about it after a while, because complaining doesn't make you any warmer.

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.

We spend so much effort trying to make things square or whatever, and nature just does what it does.

They also, in the worried opinion of one Mexican official, "go about with their constitution in their pocket," never quite accepting that they had become foreign citizens in a foreign land.

It makes sense: to embrace one's sapphic feelings—to come out to oneself—is necessarily to rethink the world.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

No matter your background, race, or circumstances, the Real You is perfect, and you must come to realize that, learn to love yourself, and understand that you do not need anything beyond yourself to be content. As you will see, you are All-That-Is. Nothing actually exists beyond yourself.

Yes, you absolutely should change what you can change, but you also need to accept what you cannot change. Out of acceptance will come detachment. This will enable you to enjoy the positive aspects of life without being distraction by the negative. Why waste energy focusing on things from the past when you can move on and put those things behind you?

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Grief is the midwife of your capacity to be immensely grateful for being born.

We should be able to tell the difference between dying and being killed.

Hope is very often a refusal to know what is so, and steadfastly it is a refusal to live as if the present moment is good enough and all we really have. Hopeless is the collapse of that refusal, and it looks a lot like depression

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

We're lovable in the ordinary.

Say yes to life, even though you know it may devour you.

I in obedience to Thy will Thou knowest did submit. It was my duty so to do; O Lord, accept of it.

To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.

D]on't cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)