Quotes About Acceptance

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.

We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing.

When people die,' she said softly, 'It doesn't necessarily mean you're ready to give them up.

Forgetting is a kind of betrayal, even if it's what happens to all grief. Time wears everything smoother as it grinds past, I suppose.

Nothing's perfect. Especially not me. I'm just like you were. Human. Hanging on. Holding out for a happy ending. But knowing it ends badly. And then being surprised by joy.

some will say that death

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

I must learn to love you.

But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart.

We only gain merit and psychological development by accepting ourselves as we are and by being serious enough to live the lives we are entrusted with. Our sins and errors and mistakes are necessary to us, otherwise we are deprived of the most precious incentives to development.

the spirit of the depths teaches me that I am a servant, in fact the servant of a child. This dictum was repugnant to me and I hated it. But I had to recognize and accept that my soul is a child

Acesta este pasul pe care Zarathustra nu l-a putut face: pasul c?tre "omul cel mai urât", omul adev?rat. Împotrivirea ÅŸi frica fa?? de el dovedesc cât de mare este puterea de atracÅ£ie ÅŸi de seducÅ£ie a ceea ce este inferior. Separarea de inferior nu este o soluÅ£ie.

R]eal liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.… By accepting the darkness, the patient has not, to be sure, changed it into light, but she has kindled a light that illuminates the darkness within. By day no light is needed, and if you don't know it is night you won't light one, nor will any light be lit for you unless you have suffered the horror of darkness.

the grief a man feels when he is forced to sacrifice his ideal and his conscious attitudes.

I had to let myself be carried along by the current, without a notion of where it would lead me.

I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

To think otherwise than our contemporaries think is somehow illegitimate and disturbing; it is even indecent, morbid or blasphemous, and therefore socially dangerous for the individual. He is stupidly swimming against the social current.

I do not in the least mean to say that we must never pass judgement in the cases of persons whom we desire to help and improve. But if the doctor wishes to help a human being he must be able to accept him as he is. And he can do this in reality only when he has already seen and accepted himself as he