Quotes About Acceptance

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.

So I stayed with the old priest who was my teacher, but lots of unanswered questions always came up. Then I thought, "Why don't you teach me anything?" But my teacher didn't care. He just lived. He just let me be alive every day.

Change is the basis of human life, so don't attach yourself to birth or death, continuation or discontinuation. Just live right in the middle of the flow of change, where there is nothing to hold on to. How do you do this? Just be present and devote yourself to doing something. This is the simple practice of Zen.

Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy" (WND

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

When he drew back she said, 'Don't you mind?' 'Mind what?' he whispered. 'My skin. Don't you mind kissing a coloured girl?

Perhaps she would never really know him. A year and a half ago that though would have been unbearable to her, but now she had learnt to live with uncertainty, even to love it.

She's a lesbian Marty. Girls, she likes girls and no amount of frosted eye shadow is going to make her want dick.

But if you feel better about how you present yourself to the world, how you feel about you, inside and out, I don't see the shallow in that.

I don't share your views, Mom. That doesn't mean I don't love you, or respect your choices or advice. It just means we disagree,

It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.

The primordial purity of mind is of the nature of space; There is nothing one can receive or reject.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Love is the absence of judgment.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Code of the Grunt: You ain't Superman. You do what you can and then you try to live with the fact that it wasn't enough.

Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything." It

Trees have no dogmas. Turnips are singularly broad-minded.

Everyone's belief is everyone else's concern.24 Those who talk of "tolerating all opinions" are very provincial bigots who are only familiar with one opinion.

living there. That, he says, is what happens to each of us on the day we are born. That is how we enter a family. In a family, we have to get along with a group of people we did not choose to live with, which happens to be the same situation in our relationship with the rest of the world: "The men and women who, for good reasons and bad, revolt against the family, are, for good reasons and bad, simply revolting against mankind.

Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?