Quotes About Acceptance

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." –Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome and Stoic philosopher, author of Meditations

Complaints about reality are immature.

Life is just there, to be made the best of, until it isn't. And that's all right, too.

I made it worse. I lay there for months and months, obsessing over all the places I'd never go, and I gradually realized that many of the ones I most wanted to see were places I'd never heard of. That was when I began seeing my countries." "How

Give death a better name or die trying.

there isn't shame in having shadows - we all have them to varying degrees. it's simply a part of being human

Wiccans therefore first come to accept that words are only valuable as signposts and guides that point toward mystic experience.

Only when you accept the bad news of the gospel does the good news make any sense. The grace, restoration, reconciliation, forgiveness, mercy, patience, power, healing, and hope of the gospel are for sinners. They are only meaningful to you if you admit that you have the disease and realize that it is terminal.

Because of the coexistence of sin and grace, we all shift between denying and affirming our humanity.

Our relationships will never work according to our plan

Are you frustrated with someone in your life? Have you been trying to reshape her to fit into your personal preferences?

And we have no more control over the not yet than we have had over the already.

For too many of us, our sense of identity is more rooted in our performance than it is in God's grace.

Forgiveness is not forgetting

You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.

When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework. To have such a framework requires more concepts, and having more concepts requires reading.

The seemingly distant traumas of fascism, Nazism, and communism seemed to be receding into irrelevance. We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy.

What might seem like a gesture of pride can be a source of exclusion.

Accepting the markings as a natural part of the urban landscape was already a compromise with a murderous future.

Teresa now observed that people quietly allowed their Jewish friends to slip away from their lives.

Be calm when the unthinkable arrives.

the problem with accepting things that are contradictory as possibly right is that you cannot possibly be thinking yourself when you do it.

it should be quotations

If you want to make God smile, tell him your plans