Quotes About Acceptance

Your fear of the truth does not hide or dilute it."

you're nuts but you're welcome here.

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

We've had some fun tonight...considering we're all gonna die someday.

I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.

There had to be that sense of what happens when old friends, who have long drifted apart, get back together. As much as everyone wants things to be the way they once were, it simply can't happen.

To love others you must know how much you are loved.

You have been set in the place of a child who is loved and accepted by the Father just as surely as Jesus Himself knows that love and acceptance. Your palce is the triune circle dance is as safe and secure as the place of Jesus for the staggering reason that you are in Him.

Tell yourself that this is the place you're meant to be, at least for now. Let your present situation be your entire world, at least for now. Then you'll sense something far better than the discord of endless desires: the ease and grace of acceptance and the joy of truly being where you are.

Just for a moment let your mind be quiet and see how fears evaporate see how desires withdraw like the claws of an animal that's no longer threatened.

Some people just never seem to let themselves be happy," the sea hag said. "It's like they fight against their own contentment." Was

The theme—the power of every human being to reconcile with his past—was one that resonated with me in a big way.

I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.

She grinned and nodded and another frozen thing inside of me melted.

In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated, friends and foes and kin, with no distinction among them. We have to mourn every one of them, because our memories have made them as much a part of us as our bones or our skin. If we don't, we've no right to remember anything at all.

The central shift is from a focus on what you think and feel to how do you relate to what you think and feel. Specifically, the new emphasis is on learning to step back from what you are thinking, notice it, and open up to what you are experiencing. These steps keep us from doing the damage to ourselves that efforts to avoid or control our thoughts or feelings inflict, allowing us to focus our energies on taking the positive actions that can alleviate our suffering.

Why willingness? Because I absolutely know how my pain works when I am unwilling, and I'm sick and tired of it. It's time to change my whole agenda, not just the moves I make inside a control and avoidance agenda.

ACT uses acceptance and mindfulness processes and commitment and behavioral activation processes to produce psychological flexibility. It seeks to bring human language and cognition under better contextual control so as to overcome the repertoire-narrowing effects of an excessive reliance on a problem-solving mode of mind as well as to promote a more open, centered, and engaged approach to living.

Now is the time to find out as much as possible about him, about his previous relationships, about his relationships with his family. Your judgment and acceptance of him should be based on the kind of man he is, not on his skill in manipulating your ego.

There are some things that are better left unknown until the time is right. The time is not right until death, which, in my opinion, makes death something to look forward to, not dread.

The only reason death is a bad thing is because it is bad for the living.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it. —Erma Bombeck

Oh, measure it all out! Acceptable levels of misery and suffering!' The cane swung down, thumped hard on the ground. 'Acceptable? Who the fuck says any level is acceptable? What sort of mind thinks that?' Karsa grinned, 'Why, a civilized one.' 'Indeed!' Shadowthrone turned to Cotillion. 'And you doubted this one!

Shake your fist all you want but dead is dead.