Quotes About Acceptance

But the part of ourselves we hate the most is our longing to be wanted and enjoyed.

Hope refuses to believe that the inevitable is so. What has always been and can't change is an illusion; if anything is true, it is that change is inevitable, not that the inevitable will not change. But evil caustically replies, Nonsense. It is what it is. You will only be more discouraged and frustrated until you accept reality.

religion that cannot survive looking at itself through the eyes of others does not deserve to survive.

Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.

Faith ? acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

What I want to say here is that there is a place beyond control and beyond concern that people can go, where the values and the needs of everyday life change completely. Where what matters is moment-to-moment survival to avoid mind pain.

After more than two decades here, I know that kindness is not a value that's encouraged. It's often seen as a weakness. Instead, the culture encourages keeping your head down, minding your own business, and never letting yourself be vulnerable.

Leaving Identity Issues to Other Folks

The next morning everybody was wearing the official school uniform. The boys had on light blue shirts, blue pants, and blue ties. The girls had on blue skirts with stripes on them. I looked like a dork. But everybody looked like a dork, so I didn't feel so bad.

On the way home my father said tiredly he hoped some day I'd realize it was necessary to live with people. I didn't understand him. He said a lot of other things that made me feel sorry for him, because he just couldn't stand up to a situation.

All day long I've been telling myself it's only a merry-go-round. Some people fall off quicker than others. No big mystery.

The most important thing to remember, the guiding principle, is to try to keep your son's self-esteem intact while he is in school. That is the real risk to his success and to his mental health. Once he's out of school, the world will be different. He'll find a niche where the fact that he can't spell well, or didn't read until he was eight, won't matter. But if he starts to hate himself because he isn't good at

Teach boys that there are many ways to be a man.

Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.

The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in god's hands, not yours. page~147

The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

that's not based on anything we have done, can do, or might do.17 It's not even a reward that God hands out to those who happen to choose him (Romans 9:16). It's God's wonderful acceptance of us not because we have

Selon les diseuses de bonne aventure les cartes rouges et noires ne me laissent pas le choix. Dans ma paume, la ligne de vie est creusée comme une cicatrice. Il n'y aura pas de miracles. Mon sang ne remontera pas sa pente. Ce qui doit m'arriver, m'arrivera implacablement et s'imposera tel un long rêve insupportable. On m'a permis d'espérer, sans que l'espoir me soit imposé par quiconque. Alors, je ne demande que de vivre en paix entre mes frontières.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

We often hear about how we need to be more tolerant: to make room for people, ideas, and actions with which we may not agree. This is a prerequisite for a functional democracy. But tolerance alone is not sufficient; it allows us to accept others without engaging with them, to feel smug and self-satisfied without challenging the boundaries within which too many of us live.