Quotes About Acceptance

Error is just as important a condition of life as truth.

To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Shame is a soul eating emotion.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Che non si debba amare sé stessi, è una sorta di pregiudizio nevrotico tardo-cristiano.

El núcleo de todos los celos es una falta de amor.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

He wondered if something was mentally wrong with him for being content with what he had

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don't shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say.

Freedom of will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

Life calls, not for perfection, but for completeness.

what you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Let things happen.

We cannot slay our incapacity and rise above it, but that is precisely what we wanted. Incapacity exists. No one should deny it, find fault with it or shout it down.

Blind acceptance never leads to a solution; at best it leads only to a standstill and is paid for heavily in the next generation.

I never think that I am the one who must see to it that cherries grow on stalks

Do not throw yourself against what has become, enraged or bent on destruction. What will you put in its place? Do you not know that if you are successful in destroying what has become, you will then turn the will of destruction against yourself? But anyone who makes destruction their goal will perish through self-destruction. Much rather respect what has become, since reverence is a blessing.

I realize this now, but I didn't know it then." Of course, if it is in their heads now, so was it then. What they mean is that they only now accept the significance

By way of analogy, when you are driving on a slippery mountain road at night, you do not manage the hazard by getting out and drying off the pavement—you slow down through the dangerous curves. When dealing with people who won't let go, that means having strategies in place to lessen the likelihood of unwanted encounters. You change what you can and stop trying to change what you cannot.