Quotes About Acceptance

I guess even really annoying people can be right sometimes.

The best thing about college was that you could wear anything anywhere.

Stop this, she thought. Stop this pitiful absurd train of thought! Some people become deadheads. Some people become glue freaks. Jon Pear is a tear collector. It's a little weird, but Madrigal loved him, so he's lovable.

To be believed, you had to have the support of the Somebodies

People could not accept the presence of Evil. They had to laugh, or shrug. Walk away, or look elsewhere.

Mercy had never liked thinking about Eliza marrying an Indian. But what was her own future now? Would she, would Sarah, would Ruth, end up marrying an Indian? The image of Ruth Catlin agreeing to obey an Indian as her lawfully wedded husband made Mercy laugh.

arms, her black African arms, with

She had read a million times that you could not make your boyfriend into something else, so fine—Kathleen would make herself into something else.

My body might not be ready for love,' she sighed, 'but my heart is.

Surrendering the need for an explanation represents a profound act of personal transformation.

Having to say, "If this is what I must accept, so be it," can feel like chewing glass, but not being able to accept what you cannot change is like having to swallow those shards of glass.

Forgiveness is your release from the hell of wanting to know what cannot be known and from wanting to see others suffer because they have hurt you.

Forgiveness is essential to healing, because it requires you to surrender your ego's need to have life fall into place around your personal version of justice.

Finding the right healing path requires all or nothing. Once you place conditions on healing, all you can achieve is conditional healing.

El perdón es tu renuncia al infierno de querer saber lo que es imposible saber y de querer ver sufrir a otros porque te han herido.

Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

The expression "If you can't love yourself, you can't love anyone else" is commonplace. Yet for many people loving oneself remains a vague notion

Of great significance to me was the realization that healing does not always mean that the physical body recovers from an illness. Healing canals meant that one's spirit has released long-held fears and negative thoughts towards oneself or others. This kind of spiritual release and healing can occur even though one's body may be dying physically.

Of great significance to me was the realization that healing does not always mean that the physical body recovers from an illness. Healing can also mean that one's spirit has released long-held fears and negative thoughts towards oneself or others. This kind of spiritual release and healing can occur even though one's body may be dying physically.

After all, who are you that the world should make sense to you?

We all have to surrender our need for our world to be ordered according to our conceptions of justice, logic, and rational motives. Just as you must have realized by now that your world does not, in fact, revolve around you—that you have very little authority over your life and that even making it alive until sundown is not in your hands—you must reach the stage of spiritual maturity where you surrender to God.

We are so deluded. We are in control of nothing whatsoever; not the weather, not the government, not the stock market, not traffic, barely our health and relationships, not the millions of decisions being made by people all over the world every second—all of which influence our lives in both unseen and all-too-apparent ways. We

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

The goal of becoming a conscious person is not to outwit death, nor even to become immune to disease. The goal is to be able to handle any and all changes in our lives—and in our bodies—without fear, looking only to absorb the message of truth contained in the change.