Quotes About Acceptance

I let my voice trail off, unable to explain that the biggest grudge I held was against my younger self, the girl I'd been trying to bury for almost a decade.

Things always change, Eva. You cannot control change. You can only be prepared for it.

Of course not. I just want you to feel more at home. Not like a visitor." "But that's what I am," Larkin protested. Bitty stood, her knees cracking, and laughed. "You tell yourself that over and over again, sweetie, but it'll never drain the salt water running through your veins. The outgoing tide might suck all the water from the creeks and marshes here, but eventually the ocean pushes it all back where it belongs.

We are born to fight the bends and curves of our own rivers, pushing back that which will not give, understanding where we are meant to be only when we let go and let the river take us back tot he place where we began.

And sometimes home is where one finds it, in the heart of another person who will always believe you are worthy of love.

I live in a kind of tension between the will to say yes to my suffering, and my inability to utter this yes with complete sincerity.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

So laß mir meinen Glauben, wie ich Dir den Deinigen lasse!

You just have to take one day at a time. It's a good idea to plan ahead if possible, but you can't always do that because things don't always happen the way you were hoping they would happen. So the most important thing is one day at a time. Tip

Achieving the reconciliation taught her critically important lessons about how to meet her own needs while accepting differences and showing compassion to others.

A tapasztalatok motiválhatnak egy döntést, és így egy állítás elfogadását vagy elvetését is, de velük épp úgy nem lehet egy alapállítást igazolni, mint azzal, hogy ököllel rácsapunk az asztalra.

La vera ignoranza non è la manca di cultura, ma il rifiuto di acquisirla.

If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

The question of the acceptance of theories should, I propose, be demoted to the status of a minor problem. For science may be regarded as a growing system of problems, rather than as a system of beliefs. And for a system of problems, the tentative acceptance of a theory or a conjecture means hardly more than that it is considered worthy of further criticism.

Most of us, it seems, have a strong inclination to accept the peculiarities of our social environment as if they were 'natural'.

You came and you will be gone. You don't even have to do something for it, it happens by itself. You came by itself and you will be gone by itself. So, what do you worry about?

I'm not that crazy about reality, but that's all I've got.

I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.

When a child expresses anger, hate, disappointment, resentment, hurt or whatever, let him feel what he feels without making a judgment about it or shaming him. Validate him and what he is feeling by verbalizing back to him what you think he is saying. When a child is shamed he gets the message that he is defective, flawed, or always making mistakes.

most people have a deep desire, and are searching, for peace of mind and the ability to truly love and be loved unconditionally.

When parents accept each of their children the way they are, consistently validating their feelings—teaching them with love and patience, helping them understand what appropriate and inappropriate feelings are without judging, and then assist them in shifting their fear-based (inappropriate) feelings to love-based (appropriate) feelings by using the Script, these children will have a much better opportunity to progress through life with more confidence and higher self-esteem.

Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.

How do you help someone who doesn't recognize they have a brain illness? It's not their fault the brain can't inform itself that something's gone haywire.