Quotes About Acceptance

Undergo the quiet treatment of the five senses. It is enough to accept what is gratuitously given.

In the seminar room, Helen had lit the chalice and given a short speech about not focusing on one kind of minister—a man, a woman, a person of color, or someone within a certain age range—when the person who most needed to hear this slipped in.

When I got home, I couldn't stop crying, so Mark asked Rev Tom to come over. Rev Tom said that losing our child was not a punishment and miscarriages happen for medical reasons. He was so kind and nonjudgy, I decided to come to your church and left First Cal. I have felt so accepted, especially here, on this committee, which is such an honor to be on. I am so thankful for all of you.

The long years had taught him that everything worked itself out given enough time, and some things would always be the way fate wished them to be.

Lydia Barratt, táim in grá leat. Erik took a knee. Say ya will marry me lassie.

If I want to dress up like Princess Leia and lightsaber fight the clone army in my living room, well the Han Solo in my life is just going to have to accept it.

He knew that Zach was dead.

Some people have a gift for making you feel okay, just by the fact of their presence.

Why will you not just accept what is? You have done as you will in my domain. I have exacted no price for actions that would be the death of any other. Why? I am your enemy here!

Why will you not just accept what is? You have done as you will in my domain. I have exacted no price for actions that would be the death of any other. Why? I am your enemy here! It does little harm.

Nearly all the queers Michelle knew were fuckups in one way or another.

One of the most powerful things I'd learned since getting sober is to love and accept life on life's terms. Alcoholics have a hard time doing this; we're little id-driven crybabies, guzzling and complaining about how nothing in this life goes the way we think it should. Accepting and even embracing the world as it is can be radical, and it can have powerful, positive results.

The life I wanted, one with healthy relationships and less regret, a healthy body and less sickness, a stronger career and less floundering, would only ever be mine if I passed through this time of darkness.

Theories have four stages of acceptance: i. this is worthless nonsense; ii. this is interesting, but perverse; iii. this is true, but quite unimportant; iv. I always said so. —J. B. S. HALDANE, 1963

Los grandes cambios rara vez resultan oportunos y consecuentes con nuestro particular estado de ánimo.

Permitamos que el tiempo venga a buscarnos en vez de luchar contra él

En ningún cuerpo falta un lunar.

It doesn't matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.

Imagine living your life without judging others. You can easily forgive others and let go of any judgments that you have. You don't have the need to be right, and you don't need to make anyone else wrong. You respect yourself and everyone else, and they respect you in return.

Just do your best — in any circumstance in your life. It doesn't matter if you are sick or tired, if you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself. And if you don't judge yourself there is no way you are going to suffer from guilt, blame, and self-punishment. By always doing your best, you will break a big spell that you have been under.

You are no longer responsible for anyone's opinion. You have no need to control anyone, and no one controls you either... You don't need to be right and you don't need to make anyone else wrong...you are no longer afraid of being rejected, and you don't have the need to be accepted...you can walk into the world with your heart completely open, and not be afraid to be hurt.

We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

You don't need to blame your parents for teaching you to be like them. What else could they teach you but what they know? They did the best they could, and if they abused you, it was due to their own domestication, their own fears, their own beliefs. They had no control over the programming they received, so they couldn't have behaved any differently.

You find that the injustice that created a wound is no longer true, right now, in this moment.