Quotes About Acceptance

People have always shined, but they shine brightest when they become grateful for what they have, and learn to love themselves. Perfection isn't beautiful, imperfection and flaws are.

If you cannot get rid of the skeleton in the closet- you may as well take it out and make it dance.

I'm not afraid of death. I just lay down until it goes away.

Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; We have to learn to be free. We have to, doesn't mean happy all the time, or okay all the time. It's okay not to be okay. I'm relearning it myself. But not being okay doesn't mean you stop living.

Stop fighting your circumstances." Start working on changing them.

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. It's best to accept life as it really is and not as you imagined it to be." "Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will understand why everything in the past never worked.

Oh God just look at me now... "I am the perfect version of me.

As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the person in the second half of life is obliged to come to a more sober wisdom based on a humbled sense of personal limitations and the inscrutability of the world.

In the end we will only be transformed when we can recognize and accept the fact that there is a will within each of us, quite outside the range of conscious control, a will which knows what is right for us, which is repeatedly reporting to us via our bodies, emotions, and dreams, and is incessantly encouraging our healing and wholeness.

What I cannot accept in myself, what I cannot handle in the complexity of the world, what I fear in you, often leads me to repress you if I can.

Going through means that we have to experience what we not wish to experience, for to flee it is even worse.

Go into the fear, deal with it, lest you live a fugitive life.

Notice how shame, consciously or unconsciously, pulls us away from risk, ratifies our negative sense of worth through self-sabotage, or compels us into frenetic efforts at overcompensation, grandiosity, or yearning for validation that never comes. How much each of us needs to remember theologian Paul Tillich's definition of grace as accepting the fact that we are accepted, despite the fact that we are unacceptable.

Nothing human is alien to me." But can that be true? Surely the I that I know and treasure, the I that I present to you, is free of the darker sides of human conduct.

In other words to break an addiction we have to be able to face the unfaceable, think the unthinkable, bear the unbearable... The only way to go through them again is to go through them, to go down in that anxiety state and to feel what we really feel, is to go through and to break the tyranny of the addiction

We must examine what we envy or dislike in others and acknowledge those very things in ourselves. This helps to prevent our blaming or envying others for what we have not done ourselves.

Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

Another thing I think about names is that they DO hurt. They hurt because we believe them. We think they are telling us something true about ourselves, something other people can see even if we don't. —Bobby Goodspeed

The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. —Bobby Goodspeed

And that's an even greater love: to love somebody when he's a little...worn at the edges. —Teddy Bear

The point is that something I thought was perfect has been broken, and I'm having to find the beauty in what is there instead of what I thought was there. Like this shell. I can either spend all my time wishing it were perfect, trying to imagine it the way it was or might have been, or I can see how beautiful it is just like this.

Crying can help, too. People are often afraid to cry because they are told that crying is for babies. Crying does not make you a baby, no matter what anyone says. There are times when people feel so bad that they can't express their feelings in words. At those times, crying helps.