Quotes About Acceptance

Sometimes life isn't what you thought it would be it's just what it is.

When you really love someone, you see all their mess and their brokenness and you love them anyway. In fact, seeing all of that sort of makes you love them more.

Anyone to whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart. —Ludwig Wittgenstein

If I've made any "progress" it's that now I know I'll be an alcoholic till the day I die, and that is both my biggest cross and my greatest blessing.

There's a Buddhist saying that when your house is done your life is over.

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.

You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.

A love that lasts is a chivalrous kind, that is the hero through rain or shine and accepts when it has become ill and needs some love back.

As the tiniest flower in a meadow competes with all the bouquets of your love, I say to you, accept me and our love will grow us into a sun.

Love is facing your inner and outer faults then accepting you are still you.

I don't mind my age.

I'd set out to write a book about how we learn to trust our own experience in the face of confusion, doubt, and anxiety. What I ended up with is the story of how we love each other in spite of immense limitations

Unconditional love requires us to accept Billy for exactly who he is. He cannot be different at this present moment. He is perfectly normal based on his history.

A community is like a family," she told him, "and every family has a few odd ducks. The important thing to remember is that they're still family.

Part of being a parent is rolling with the punches, so consider an unexpected pregnancy the universe's way of helping you to learn to do that.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be. —Alan Watts

You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing. —Tuck, Tuck Everlasting

When I have the courage to trust and follow the signs I receive, I am far happier than when I am hiding from or denying them.

The more we are willing to release all that is holding us back from accepting a higher, loving power into our lives, the more we become available to experience true miracles everyday.

People are people,"..."You can fall in love with either sex- it's the *person* who makes the difference. His or her spectacular insides.

You can't tell people what to be, I'm afraid," said Rosie. "You can only love and support who they already are.

I wish for my child, for all our children, a world where they can be who they are and become their most loved, blessed, appreciated selves.

Wider ranges of normal make the world a better place for everyone.

How did you teach your small human that it's what's inside that counts when the truth was everyone was pretty preoccupied with what you put on over the outside too?