Quotes About Acceptance

mongrels . . . people who've bred back and forth with just about everybody and seem to enjoy it. You know . . . like Californians.

As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.

So did Katagiri fail, and am I a failure because I can't remember what Buddhism is—and are all the rest of us failures, as it seems, when contrasted against our early pure and simple expectations and the clear-cut enlightenment of the story books?

Ask people for suggestions on how to improve, and if they're going to reject you for being imperfect, let them do it and get it over with.

If the comments are wrong, there is really nothing for you to be upset about. On the other hand, if the criticism is accurate, there is still no reason for you to feel overwhelmed. You're not expected to be perfect.

Depresyondaki bireylerin büyük bir çoÄŸunluÄŸu asl?nda çok sevilen insanlard?r, fakat bu hiç iÅŸe yaramaz; çünkü, kendilerini sevmezler ve kendilerine güvenleri eksiktir. Aslolan, ancak kendinize verdiÄŸiniz deÄŸerin nas?l hissettiÄŸinizi belirlediÄŸidir.

A free man is free to acknowledge his fears, without hiding them, or hiding from them. Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.

The way you relate to your woman's chaos reflects the way you react to the chaos of the world. If you are the kind of man who needs everything placed neatly in its nice little box, then you will also try to box your woman's emotions. If you are the kind of man who would rather hire other people to take care of the chaos in your attic, or the chaos of your finances, you would probably also rather leave it to someone else to take care of the chaos of your woman.

If you are willing to feel exactly what is and open as you are, then your life unfolds as truth.

STOP HOPING FOR A COMPLETION OF ANYTHING IN LIFE

Practice love instead of trying to bring an end to the quality that bothers you. You can't escape the tussle with the feminine. Learn to find humor in the unending emotional drama the feminine seems to enjoy so much. The love that you magnify may realign her behavior, but your effort to fix her and your frustration

Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.

Jesus touches the one who was untouchable and cleanses even the worst impurity.

Refusing to talk about something wouldn't make it go away. If it was there, it was there, and no amount of verbal acrobatics could make it go away.

If you can't do something about a situation, there's no point in worrying about it.

Women are almost always angry with us for one reason or another. It's one of the things you'll have to get used to as you get older.

Fear's a part of life, Mandorallen, and it's the only life we have.

As he grew, the other children grew as well—all except poor Doroon, who seemed doomed to be short and skinny all his life. Rundorig

Fear's a part of life, Mandorallen, and it's the only life we have. You'll get used to it. After you've put it on every morning like an old tunic, you won't even notice it anymore. Sometimes laughing at it helps—a little." "Laughing?" "It shows the fear that you know it's there, but that you're going to go ahead and do what you have to do anyway.

Since there was absolutely nothing he could do about his circumstances, chewing on them would only leave a sour taste in his mouth.

I realized then that if I could teach my children only one or two basic principles, tolerance would be one of them.

the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs go, but yet of course we should always remember that a deep need for anything from other people makes us easy pickings.

life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

Everything I've ever let go of had claw marks on it.