Quotes About Acceptance

Conservatism is a natural state because it accepts human nature as it is, rather than trying to fight it.

I can love you and be pissed at the same time. They're not mutually exclusive.

Shame is the best teacher.

But I can't rewrite history. I can love only with what's left.

We all have guilt. It just can't be all that we have.

But I can't rewrite history. I can only live with what's left.

Are you sure this is okay?" he asks. "I mean, did your dad really invite the handsome stranger who's dating his daughter to sleep on the couch?" "I like how you added in the 'handsome.

He's making me deal with things I want to avoid. He's making me dig in to the pain.

Do you really think anything can ever be the same again? She's empty, Sloane. She's the walking dead now.

He turned to stare down at his latte, wiping hard at his cheeks as the tears started to fall. He didn't push away the pain. It was his and he would own it. He wouldn't bury it again.

Be kind to yourself, Michael," she said. "You're the one who has to live with you.

He was glad he was facing his problems, but there was one person he could never escape—himself.

You can't rewrite history, undo the past, or predict the future.

But let me ask you this: Where does blame get you? Blame renders you powerless. You must get past blame to become who you are meant to be. And what does shame do to you? Shame only serves to hold you back... It is fine to understand how we got here, but the next breath must contain a resolve to move ahead into a future that looks entirely different, into a destiny that is all yours.

Come out of that closet, baby, the air's so bright and disco out here.

We say concentration, but to concentrate your mind on something is not the true purpose of Zen. The true purpose is to see thing as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. This is to put everything under control in its widest sense.

If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it

we often make life harder today by focusing on how great life used to be.

Whether you like it or not, everything is to make you stronger and wiser. And the sooner you see it as such – i.e. the sooner you stop running from your pain and start asking the pain and the gods in what ways this hardship is the greatest blessing of your life – the sooner you become a more powerful and more compassionate agent of God's love in the world.

What if . . . What if I am stupid? Like people say?

Como se faz para tirar um homem do coração ? É como sofrer de uma doença que não se pode curar.

You can't stop the waves but you can learn how to surf.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.