Quotes About Acceptance

Rejection is the most difficult thing to over come !!

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one. The pain is an anchor, mooring me here.

I think you still love me, but we can't escape the fact that I'm not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I'm not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I'm not angry, either. I should be, but I'm not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.

What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better.

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

The Prophet (saas) never pressured those around him to accept the religion, nor imposed conditions on them.

silencing doesn't resolve anything; rather than erase differences

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!

Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

Twelve Step programs counsel "Look back, but don't stare." Wonder why? Because it's fucking painful!

nothing changes when you say no, so say yes and let the world know you're open to possibility.

We ought to take a deep breath—symbolically—with the singer, because we have, in a sense, "made it." We have survived the first movement's brutality and despair, participated in the second's harsh struggle, and been purified by the third's glowing acceptance of life as it is. What Beethoven wants us to experience now is all-embracing joy.

envision to be our birthright. Stubbornly, we want what we need without having to change who we are, but that is impossible, for what we need is ourselves—our lost wholeness— which is attainable only through changing what we have become.

is easier to go without love than to accept a form of love that reawakens our fears of loss. In fact, to receive love feels far more dangerous than to be without it.

Is this who I married?! Something is terribly wrong. Let us reassure you, nothing has gone wrong. Romantic Love is just the first stage of couplehood. It's supposed to fade. Romantic Love is the powerful force that draws you to someone who has the positive and negative qualities of your parents or caregiver (this includes anyone responsible for your care as a child, for example: a parent, older sibling, grandparent, or babysitters.).

A man who attended a recent workshop said that "falling in love with my wife made me feel loved and accepted for who I was for the very first time. It was intoxicating.

Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Mother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising.