Quotes About Acceptance

The lack of one's understanding is set by the reality they are willing to accept.

Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question.

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

Only after giving up 'the truth' can we learn to speak our truth.

resolution comes only by giving up that dream and taking in that you and your partner are not, in fact, going to see all things the same way.

to move beyond some part of you, you must first get to know it and ultimately befriend it.

strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.

The difference between real acceptance and just backing away from an issue, or away from the whole relationship, is resentment.

Sustaining relationships with others requires a good relationship to ourselves. Healthy self-esteem is an internal sense of worth that pulls one neither into 'better than' grandiosity nor 'less than' shame.

Use "and," never "but." "But" cancels out whatever came before it. "And" is roomy enough for all of your many feelings.

And I loathed myself. I loathed myself for the state I was in. I loathed myself as an unlovable person. I felt there was something intrinsically monstrous about me, some rancid stink inside my soul that I had barely managed to cover over with the cheap perfume of my charm. I felt mostly dead and deserving of it. I had become an inanimate object to myself. I had somehow misplaced the knowledge that I was human.

Trying to make sense of other people's responses to us is a basic human activity. Accepting a mother's [or anyone's] anger by concluding that i is justified is a way of making sense of a difficult relationship. But this acceptance comes at a great cost, for it means that we see their cruelty as our shame.

I could always accept not being the prettiest or the smartest Because I had the best of friends. A and A they called us. But, Anna, somehow, I failed you. And now I've lost the best part of Me.

Over time, the hurt doesn't hurt. Only regret does.

Remedy it or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices.

His father died before his time. "You're a man now," the village people told him. "If being broken-hearted is a man," he replied from his despair, "then, yes, I suppose I'm a man."

If God asks that you bend, bend and do not complain. He is making you more flexible, and for this be thankful.

Don't let the past steal your present.

Yoga accepts. Yoga gives.

Hate less, live longer.

You can never worry your way to enlightenment.

Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty. Resistance makes it ugly.

Fearing to lose what you have is not the same as appreciation. You have to take a step beyond that.

Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them.