Quotes About Acceptance

Accept your humanness as well as your divinity, totally and without reserve.

Ultimately, love is self approval.

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman, not the grief of a child ...

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment- and surprise.

Long ago I understood that it wasn't merely my being a woman that was preventing my being welcomed into the world of what I long thought of as my peers. It was that I had succeeded in an undertaking few men have even attempted: I have become myself.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you can't change it, accept it.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates.

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.

God loves us the way we are but He loves us too much to leave us that way.