Quotes About Acceptance

It is okay to be flawed and defective, or even wonderful

For example, when a loved one dies, you validly think, "I lost him (or her), and I will miss the companionship and love we shared." The feelings such a thought creates are tender, realistic, and desirable. Your emotions will enhance your humanity and add depth to the meaning of life. In this way you gain from your loss.

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.

Your fear is the sharpest definition of your self. You should know it. You should feel it virtually constantly. Fear needs to become your friend, so that you are no longer uncomfortable with it.

Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing to feel your heart's terrors and wounds or else you will close and protect yourself, striking back at the source of openness you most yearn to become...

Testability is now generally accepted as the defining characteristic of the scientific method. Popper called it the 'criterion of demarcation' between science and non-science.

And maybe one day people will accept each other for who they are and not which race they're born to," I said. He gave me the classic Walter look, the one that says, "You may be the adult, but who do you think you're kidding?

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.

If we could be participants in, rather than creators of, our lives, we'd let go of most of the judgements, critiques, fears, and doubts that keep us from loving life.

Indeed, there are some mysteries that must exist without answer. In the end we must accept them for what they are: complex and many-sided, ornamented with clues and theories, yet ultimately unknowable—like life itself.

Yes, but if I were to look down there what would I see?" "Don't think about it like that," Greta said. "That's not the only thing that makes you Lili.

You will loose everything" "I already have.

Lili chiuse gli occhi (li sentiva così pesanti sotto lo strato di cipria!) e pensò a Copenhagen come a una città dove lei e Einar potevano vivere entrambi come una stessa persona.

Greta must have noticed his discomfort, because she reached out and held Einar's cheeks and said, "It means nothing." And then, "When will you stop worrying about what other people think?

It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to. --Polgara

Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk." "It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?

Tolerance isn't just a discourse of power, it is also a discourse of conditionality; that is to say, you will be tolerated unless and until you behave in certain ways, at which point I will no longer tolerate you.

I welcomed who I was and left behind who I was not.

What can I say? Life's no bed of roses For a kid who's different, A kid with horns. A bed of roses? LMAO!

Asterion. She calls me by my name, and lights this sunless coffin like a flame.

You know that you should not feel this way, but your body keeps getting hijacked into feeling intolerable sensations and emotions.

If God says homosexuality is a sin, why didn't he answer my child's many prayers pleading to be changed? Why does God apparently condemn people for something they were born with and that he won't change for them? For both child and parent, these questions can lead to a crisis of faith.