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Quotes About Acceptance

Let it Be, Let it Be, Let it Be, Let it Be, Whisper words of wisdom, Let it Be.
~ The Beatles
Living is easier with eyes closed.
~ The Beatles
All you need is love!!
~ The Beatles
Turn your mind completely away from your difficulty, concentrate exclusively on the Light and the Force coming from above; let the Lord do for your body whatever He pleases. Hand over to Him totally the entire responsibility of your physical being. ref. Words Of The Mother, vol 15, p.150
~ The Mother
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
~ Theodor Adorno
von 'ne unglückliche Liebe kann sich einer noch wieder erholen un ganz gut 'rausmausern, aber von's unglückliche Leben nicht.
~ Theodor Fontane
It's very confusing, being all of yourself. You'll find it quite uncomfortable for a while. But you'll get used to it. We all do.
~ Theodora Goss
DIANA: Mary's right. Give me London any day. It may smell of sewage, but it's our sewage.
~ Theodora Goss
But then she put her hands on Mary's shoulders and kissed her on both cheeks. Well, Mary didn't mind. Irene was the most interesting woman she had ever met. They were not in competition, but if they had been, she would happily have lost to Irene Norton.
~ Theodora Goss
She had tried not to feel anything about it, because when she allowed herself to, she felt not grief or loss, but only an overwhelming sense of relief.
~ Theodora Goss
They would not live happily ever after, because no one did that. But they would be together, and that was enough.
~ Theodora Goss
She could not help feeling a great sadness that he was gone. He was the only person in the world who had known her as a puma. With his death, she had lost a part of herself. And yet, she could not entirely let go of her anger toward him. It was a complicated feeling, and she did not like complicated feelings. Beatrice
~ Theodora Goss
So they decided against me. Now I will have to go through that door after all,—like all those others. They'll draw the curtains for me, too. Into that other room—then back across the passage— saying good-bye as I go, like those others. I will not be here any more. He seemed to be going over each step in his mind—each step with which he was so familiar, only now, for the first time, he was living it for himself.
~ Theodore Dreiser
What grace I have is enough.
~ Theodore Roethke
Por qué tenemos que amar donde cae el relámpago y no donde nosotros elegimos?... Pero me alegro que seas tú, pequeño principe. Me alegro que seas tú.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
Was a bird for about an hour," he said. "Tell you something about birds. People go around all the time sayin', 'Am I a man? Am I a woman, a real woman?' Lookin' at what they've done, wonderin' if that's what a man would do. Now, birds: they just birds. The one thing they never do is say, 'Am I a bird?
~ Theodore Sturgeon
No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.
~ They Might Be Giants
No one in the world ever gets what they want, and that is beautiful
~ They Might Be Giants
When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
In true love, you attain freedom.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh