Quotes About Acceptance

Only you could take one of my worst character faults and turn it into a virtue.

The recovery task for this stage is to take hold of yourself one moment at a time, to recognize that you are a separate person, a fully capable adult, responsible for your own self-care. It is no one else's responsibility to meet your emotional needs; only you can do that. Emotional self-reliance involves accepting the intense feelings of the experience, taking stock of your present reality, and assuring yourself that you will survive.

What is born will die What has been gathered will be dispersed What has been accumulated will be exhausted What has been built up will collapse And what has been high will be brought low. The only thing we really have is nowness, now.

811. Focus on the here and now, forget yesterday's behavior, and don't predict tomorrow's. Every day with ADHD is different from the next.

No matter how dilapidated, scarred and mutilated your body, I have always found you beautiful, for it is the soul beneath I seek.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

The Power of Forgiveness Research shows that practicing forgiveness will make you happier, improves your health, strengthens relationships. In terms of it being a skill, forgiveness is probably one of the most challenging to learn. It's right up there with acceptance, unconditional love.

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She wasn't [okay], though. Okay was a bland, plateau-like emotional state, somewhere between fine and miserable on the feelings scale.

I have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you.

yes, I have slept with the wrong men, and never with the wrong dog.

She received the same love he extended to all humankind. He never upbraided her for leaving him, and this rationality of his, whether a put-on or not, was another shocking loss, though she knew it was enormously selfish to want the man that you no longer loved to keep pining for you. He finally, quietly let her go, let three months pass before answering one of her letters. She knew then to stop writing back.

The school was meant to set apart, to break bonds that were better off broken, confined to childhood. Sarah and David accepted this as the sort of poignant rite their exceptional lives would require.

She'd stopped fighting and known, as Pauline must have known when she'd joined with her captors, that any bond is its own great salvation, no matter how damning in all other ways. She'd bound herself then to Pauline, and Pauline's rushing fate.

Mr. Kingsley was not just gay but an iconoclast, the first such they'd ever encountered. This was what they longed to be themselves, little though they could put into words. They were all children who had previously failed to fit in, or had failed, to the point of acute misery, to feel satisfied, and they had seized on creative impulse in the hope of salvation.

Never dismiss anyone's value until you know him.

To see hundreds of people come out in the cold at the University of Missouri to block a few so-called Christians who came to protest against me shows you how love conquers hate.

Midlife is a time of explosive change, when our hormones rampage and our bodies alter, forcing us into a whole new chapter of life whether we want it or not. Everyone has a moment when they realise for sure that this so-called passage of time is changing them - and perhaps not in a good way.

From the age of ten I was a full blown fuzz ball to the point that my so-called friends called me 'Hairy McLary From Donaldson's Dairy.'

Very rarely does a mainstream film push the envelope. A film that's so-called mainstream and questions certain norms, certain notions of morality, and gets away with it opens doors. It means the common man, the majority of the people, have accepted it.

'Shakti' is not a run-of-the-mill daily soap.

I don't mind talking about dad and stuff, because that's part of my life, you know? For me to pretend to be like him, and do the same things he used to do is over. I can see past it now. It took me thirty-eight years and sobriety to realize who Jason Bonham is.

Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.