Quotes About Acceptance

I hate loneliness, but it loves me.

Dispose of everything that was lost. There's no time to dream about something that won't come back. I must look forward. Forward…

That's right... I never felt a sense of superiority because I could see spirits. And I never once thought that I could make a living or help someone with it. I just longed for a life where I couldn't see them. And I finally got what I always wanted.

It is not frightening to know misfortune. What is frightening is to know lost happiness will never come back again.

If tomorrow you turned into a snake and you began devouring humans.If with that same mouth you told me you loved me. Would I still be able to say, I love you. The same way I do today?

Zangetsu. I don't care who you are. You'll probably say that i'm wrong but... you... and that guy... both are.. zangetsu. Hey. Is that all right? zangetsu...

What's really ugly is judging others based on how they look.

People who call others ugly are the ugly ones.

If you became a snake tomorrow And began devouring people, If you roared your love for me With that mouth you use to devour people Could I still say that I love As I do today?

One thing that capitalism cannot function with is people that accept that failure is itself success. Because you have to be bent upon success in order to be a good capitalist subject. If you accept that 'I'm never going to get that object I desire,' then you are no longer seduced by accumulation or advertising.

Peace is being different, feeling good about yourself, and helping others. The world is a better place because of you.

The contribution of humanistic psychology to better relationships is recognized by the inclusion of Carl Rogers, whose influential book reminds us that relationships cannot flower if they don't have a climate of listening and nonjudgmental acceptance, and that empathy is the mark of a genuine person.

Beck's three principles of cognitive therapy were: All our emotions are generated by our "cognitions," or thoughts. How we feel at any given moment is due to what we are thinking about. Depression is the constant thinking of negative thoughts. The majority of negative thoughts that cause us emotional turmoil are plain wrong or at least distortions of the truth, but we accept them without question.

This idea originated with psychologist Carl Rogers (see p 238), who taught that nonjudgmental listening and acceptance of another person's feelings create rapport. Applied

Life's a bitch, and then you die.

Abuse was the weapon of the coward, after all, and those who applied it knew the fact as well as those who had to accept it.

pilot might think a 1-percent chance of being shot down on a given mission acceptable, then realize that fifty such missions made it a 40-percent chance.

A" would go out to everybody, while "B" would go only to those people who were supposed to survive, people who understood what it was all about, or who would accept their survival and get on with things with the rest of the crew.

And yet society had learned to accept the fact that it wasn't this way for many. This area was so different from his area of operations, and the privileges these kids enjoyed ought not to be privileges at all, for how could a child grow to proper adulthood without an environment like this? Those were dangerous thoughts, Kelly told himself. The logical conclusion was to try to change the whole world, and that was beyond his capacity, he thought

It seems no body's business to try to better things

No! Be weak! Give up! You can't do everything. Lower your standards. Get friends to come and help you.

If you're mortal, all they can do to you is kill you.

The fact that he hated and feared his new environment was largely beside the point, for he had been taught long ago that what he thought and felt about any given subject was without question the least important thing in the world.

All good things must come to an end,' said Flosshilde, 'and I don't suppose he'll ever be interested in me even if he does get rid of her. Which is funny, really,' she said bitterly. 'After all, he's nothing special and I am, Heaven knows. But there you are.