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Quotes About Acceptance

If we truly love ourselves, in spite of our flaws, then we can love others in spite of theirs.
~ Stephen Richards
Don't run from your weakness, you will only give it strength.
~ Stephen Richards
There are no absolutes, and your way is neither the only way nor the right way.
~ Stephen Richards
Cosmic Ordering does not judge you.
~ Stephen Richards
Gratitude is a form of worship in its own right, as it implies the acceptance of a power greater than yourself.
~ Stephen Richards
Humans, unlike Jedi, are powerfully afraid of rejection. We do not survive well alone, so humans as a species are especially vulnerable to thoughts that make us afraid the rest of the "tribe" will desert us to die a sad, lonely death.
~ Stephen Richards
An empty mind is easy to feed.
~ Stephen Richards
When you love yourself, when you appreciate yourself, and are able to make peace with yourself, then because you are the same energy as the universe, it responds. It loves you in return, appreciates you in return, and makes its peace with you in return.
~ Stephen Richards
Stop harboring grudges against those who have wronged you, it just holds you back when you really want to be in the NOW.
~ Stephen Richards
Everyone has their own idea of the perfect partner, but they usually do not consider what it is they have to offer one.
~ Stephen Richards
Remember: the universe neither judges, nor interprets, nor second guesses your will. If it did, there would be no poverty, no hunger, no suffering.
~ Stephen Richards
It so happens that at times your desires tend to disagree with the reality and this is due to the fact that you have not let the two elements complement each other.
~ Stephen Richards
The fastest way to get lost is to go on a guilt trip!
~ Stephen Richards
Nowadays I just don't care; I've taken the Frank Zappa stance. I am who I am! Some love me, some loathe me, some respect me and some despise me. But after all that's been, I still love the insane! As they're exciting, dangerous and highly explosive! For me mad dogs are gentlemen.
~ Stephen Richards
However, what I have come to understand from my life's journey is that I am always in the right place at the right time. In fact, there is no other place I could possibly be.
~ Stephen Richards
Openness is also an acceptance that just as you have the inherent right to create your life as you see fit, so others have the same right with their own lives, even if their design differs from yours greatly.
~ Stephen Richards
Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.
~ Stephen Richards
Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.
~ Stephen Richards
From spending ten years in hell and coming to this regime of kindness was a shock. It was so much of a shock, it was unbelievable. I was like an untamed animal, I couldn't accept it and I just wouldn't accept it.
~ Stephen Richards
Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them.
~ Stephen Richards
There is no point in asking the universe for love if you cannot love yourself.
~ Stephen Richards
Ask anybody, would you want an ex-madman living next door? It's difficult enough being an ex-convict. It's double hard for us 'madmen'. Please believe it.
~ Stephen Richards
Destiny is what is happening to you right now.
~ Stephen Richards
Face it and it will be less …
~ Stephen Richards