Quotes About Acceptance

science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.

familiar process before they can acknowledge how comprehensive their problem is. First, they deny that there's something wrong with their life. Then they intensify their efforts to follow the old failing plan. Then they try to treat themselves with some new thrill: They have an affair, drink more, or start doing drugs. Only when all this fails do they admit that they need to change the way they think about life.

The people who are made larger by suffering go on to stage two small rebellions. First, they rebel against their ego ideal. .. down in the valley, they lose interest in their ego ideal

Being a (male) Bowie fan meant that your schoolmates branded you a 'poof', too.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

You refuse to give in to the perfectionistic habit, and you allow yourself to become flooded with fear and discomfort.

By this time a lot of men and women of doubtful reputation were hanging around Jesus, listening intently. The Pharisees and religion scholars were not pleased, not at all pleased. They growled, 'He takes in sinners and eats meals with them, treating them like old friends.'"6 I love that translation. He wasn't just tolerating the people of doubtful reputation; He was treating them like old friends!

We have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief.

One by one, my pals from the old days drifted away, checking on me every once in a while and, seeing that there was nothing to be done—I would not listen to anyone at the time, no matter what they said—eventually leaving me to my obsession.

By my reckoning, you are issued about a dozen friends in life, and if one of mine happens to be in a prison jumpsuit, well, better him than me, but that doesn't erase the bond.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

Better to have loved and lost a short person than never to have loved a tall.

1. Death is inevitable. 2. Our life span is decreasing continuously. 3. Death will come, whether or not we are prepared for it. 4. Human life expectancy is uncertain. 5. There are many causes of death. 6. The human body is fragile and vulnerable.20

I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it; indeed, especially when one doesn't like it.

After all, the object isn't to become so mentally strong that we can suffer through any experience; the object is to become so peaceful inside that we choose not to suffer when the pain comes.

Is there nothing,' cried Larka bitterly, 'nothing we can see in life that is too terrible? No horror we can see that will bring peace?

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

True forgiveness is the only key to real awakening. This level of forgiveness sees that individuals are always doing the very best they can in each moment,

Don't shoot, Colonel, I'll come down: I know I'm a gone coon.

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.

This is a lesson everyone who studies language eventually learns. You cannot stop language change. You may not like it ; you may regret the arrival of new forms and the passing of old ones but there is not the slightest thing you can do about it. Language change is as natural as breathing. It is one of the linguistic facts of life.

Old attitudes die hard, of course, and there will still be those who mourn the passing of the days when a single accent ruled the British airwaves. But they are a steadily shrinking minority.

Labeling yourself is not only self-defeating, it is irrational. Your self cannot be equated with any one thing you do. Your life is a complex and ever-changing flow of thoughts, emotions, and actions. To put it another way, you are more like a river than a statue. Stop trying to define yourself with negative labels—they

The secret of successful treatment is not to become a perfect, shining star or to learn to be in complete control of your feelings. These strategies are doomed to failure. In contrast, when you accept yourself as an imperfect but eminently lovable human being, and you stop fighting your emotions so strenuously, your fear will often lose its grip over you.