Quotes About Acceptance

Los niños aprenden algo más. De vez en cuando los maestros tienen que explicarles que uno de los Compañeros de Libro no podrá volver a acudir, que esa persona ha muerto. Los niños asimilan así a una edad muy temprana que la vida tiene sus ritmos y sus ciclos, y que incluso las personas cercanas a ellos forman parte de ese ciclo.

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

Trusting God does not mean believing he will do what you want, but rather believing he will do everything he knows is good.

I was slowly learning that love did not mean holding on, which I had always thought, but rather letting go.

But sometimes the quest for the right answer keeps us from testing a variety of good ones. In search of the right answer, we assume every answer other than the one we've settled on must be wrong. Forgetting that some things have more than one good answer. I'd like to think for example, that the question, "How can I love Ken?" might have many good answers, rather than one right one.

The question of belonging is THE question addressed by the gospel.

A third way asks people who differ on this question to accept each other as Christ has accepted them, without predicating acceptance on affirming the other's lifestyle on this and many other moral questions.

There is something more powerful that the gospel calls us to give each other: not affirmation, not moral approval, but acceptance. Another word for acceptance is embrace. The opposite of exclusion is not mere tolerance but embrace. The "other" is received as one who is beloved.

They say disillusionment is a huge step in a person's spiritual growth, especially when it involves disillusionment with a false view of one's self as someone who doesn't make big mistakes

Ei n-au înÈ›eles un lucru: c? un om e mai viu în momentul în care moare. ToÈ›i vars? lacrimi, i se iart? toate f?r?delegile, toÈ›i îl cinstesc.

There's no such thing in this world as absolute certainty. So accept that and go forward acting toward the best outcome no matter what.

How does God look on us? He looks on us as though we had never done anything wrong.

When the Word gains entrance into your heart, into your spirit, faith will be there automatically. You won't have to seek. You won't have to search. There will be no effort on your part. Faith will come unconsciously into your spirit as you feed upon and accept His Words. And

Love is obsessed tolerance.

But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty in it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

A volte è meglio non essere quello che siamo davvero. Non ci fa bene. E alla gente non piace. Bisogna cambiare. Bisogna sforzarsi, e fare respiri profondi, e forse un giorno prendere pillole e imparare trucchi per far finta di essere più come le altre persone. Quelle normali. Ma forse Vanessa aveva ragione, e anche quelle persone, tutte quante, erano guaste a modo loro. Forse passiamo tutti quanti troppo tempo a fingere che non lo siamo.

Never oppose what seems strange in yourself. That is the only part which is aware.

Ambition is the weakness of all the great spirits who in acceptance will find the joy & the despair the seek. The physician can only cure when he is willing to assume your disease. To be shunned is to be God a little...

To do God's will is simply to surrender our ego and accept what is. It is to develop a nonviolent approach to life: to recognize and accept our weaknesses and limitations, to be friendly with the universe instead of fighting against it, to accept that there are things that we simply cannot control or predict.

T]hose who are always trying to control everything and eliminate all uncertainties are miserable. For they are fighting against nature. On the other hand, those who come to accept uncertainties as inevitable live lives of peace.

Disappointment is the fast track to enlightenment because it accelerates our coming to terms with reality.

Intellectually, we all know that we cannot avoid death. But for most people, there is usually a wide discrepancy between between intellectual reality and psychological reality. Psychologically, we tend to deny death. [...] Recognizing the reality of death psychologically and not just intellectually is an important part of spiritual awakening.

Every day is a good day" does not mean hitting the jackpot everyday. Nor does it mean getting a promise from God or Buddha. Rather it refers to the blissful state in which one can accept reality totally and unconditionally.