Quotes About Acceptance

One grows up thinking you will naturally be able to have children, and when it doesn't happen, it's a shock. But I just feel that it wasn't meant to be.

She worried that her best was behind her now.

As long as you are angry or upset over an event, you will be unable to perceive its beneficial aspects, and you may wear yourself out with unnecessary resistance.

If you would be happy and content, you must let go of regret and resentment. Any regret or resentment for what has been done to you or even for harmful things you have done to others dispels your happiness.

Once an event has taken place, since you cannot alter the past, all that is left to you is your response.

So everything that has happened to you, that will happen to you, that is happening to you is perfect for you. Treat it that way, and your whole existence will change — perfectly.

Once you have gotten all you need from a situation, it passes out of your life, never to return.

Feelings of shame like that cannot coexist with the fact that God made us in His image.

Ain't no deserving, or otherwise,' Silo said, his bass voice rolling out from deep in his chest. 'There's what is, and what ain't, and there's what you do about it. Regret's just a way to make you feel okay when you're not making amends. A man can waste a life with regrets.

I did not yet know that not to feel is never a step forward, scarcely a relief.

You already have zero privacy. Get over it! --Scott McNealy CEO Sun Microsystems 1999

Still, far too often girls are given the message that their bodies, their lives, and their femaleness must be apologized for. Have you noticed how often women apologize?

Be open to the fact that Spirit answers prayers three ways: "Yes!" and "Not now" and "No, because I love you too much.

but we cannot go back to happier times. We can only live in the present, and right now that present is painful.

And you will forgive me too, one day, Asajj Ventress." He hesitated, and took a breath. "That's what you do for…for the one you love.

The paths of Fate are many and varied,and no sane being should ever venture down the deceptively pleasant one of if only.What happened,happened;

Life is not about reward and punishment," said Xuen. "It is about understanding, accepting who oneself is right now, in order to know what to change, and how.

Do I wish I had chosen otherwise? Wishes do not a world make. We do the best we can where we are, every minute, every breath. We make mistakes, and we have to live with them. We try to learn from them. And that is all we can do. (Thrall)

Change, Jaina thought. It brings pain; it brings joy; and it is completely inescapable. We are, all of us, our own phoenixes, if we choose to be. Out of the ashes, we can be reborn.

Voyager was my collective. I knew I was safe there. I trusted all of you; I knew all of you. I could. . . I could try to learn to love. But all that's changed. We've returned to Earth. I'm a—an oddity." "Seven, that's not true

Wishes do not a world make. We do the best we can where we are, every minute, every breath. We make mistakes, and we have to live with them. We try to learn from them. And that is all we can do.

Dear ones, wisdom, fortitude, strength, and hope cannot be learned in death. Life is not about reward and punishment, said Xuen. It is about understanding, accepting who oneself is right now, in order to know what to change, and how.

Surprise is the practice of accepting the unexpected interruption, and the practice of leaving enough space in the day for something to happen that isn't on the list. Surrendering to surprise is the practice of balancing structure and openness.

By its simple shape, circle includes everyone without distinction, welcomes and invites all to participate, and creates equality among those gathered.