Quotes About Acceptance

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

I am at war with the living, I have come to terms with the dead.

I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Death, in its silent sure march is fast gathering those whom I have longest loved, so that when he shall knock at my door, I will more willingly follow.

Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.

We put labels on people and fight wars over them. If we truly want harmony, we have to get past the labels.

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.

Her ass looks its best here, with the little wrinkles and pockets fairly well ironed out.

I wasn't never gonna run off again, no matter how bad things got. But I wasn't gonna be too scared to love the folks that took the time to love me back, and I sure wasn't gonna chase them that don't. And I was gonna spend the rest of my life asking questions and looking behind everything that happened, so I could find the gifts I got tucked inside me.

A body can't run from what they done. They carry it with them inside. It fester and spread like poison if it's buried. It gotta be out in the air where it can heal.

But I wasn't gonna be too scared to love the folks that took the time to love me back, and I sure wasn't gonna chase them that don't.

Regrets are the monsters under the bed.

Why ain't you mad?" I asked. "Might as well get mad at the wind for blowin'. Some things just be what they be.

This little kid pointed at me and said, 'You look disgusting!' That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I'd better start eating. I'm just thankful that I made it through with relatively few scars.