Quotes About Acceptance

WHAT WOULD YOU DO right now if you learned that you were going to die in ten minutes?

When you do feel shame, seek out someone who loves and accepts you for who you are, in the intimacy that exposure brings, an amazing opportunity of being loved for who we are

Learn to tolerate your own different-ness from other people and learn to navigate your own waters

One day you will die, but death is not your enemy and it only makes you to appreciate life's gifts more with each passing second.

Like Pi, we all have tigers within us. Lil demons which are a part of us. If you can't run away from them, welcome them, feed them and listen to what they will have to say. There is really not a whole lot to be afraid of.

I hope you will not listen to people who try to talk you out of your pain or show you ways to fix it. Because if your try too hard to fix pain, it only takes longer to heal.

that's not how wounds heal. They don't obey our wishes. Healing takes place in its own way and in its own time.

A wise man once said all children are born knowing what the angels look like. Once we stop fighting against death, we are able to wake up to our lives

peace comes to us when we simply stop fighting.

Love changes everything.

being different is not a problem. It's just being different. but feeling different is a problem. When you feel different, the feeling can actually change the way you see the world.

Your differentness and my different-ness are just facts. Sometimes what we do with our minds turn those facts into pain, and sometimes we can just treat them as facts, acknowledging them but not feeling them. But the more you feel your different-ness, the more lonely you will feel.

more often, the payoff is better if you don't pretend you feel strong when you feel weak or pretend that you are brave when you're scared. I really believe the world might be a safer place if everyone who felt vulnerable wore flashers that said, "I have a problem and I'm doing the best I can".

change is inevitable, and when it happens, the wisest response is not to wail or whine but to suck it up and deal with

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks prearranged. This is because they accept all offers made."9

Self-compassion begins by replacing searing judgment with basic kindness.

3. Study self-compassion.

Take this fifty-three-year-old Californian: I regret not coming out as a gay man sooner. It definitely impacted how I showed up and my performance and connectedness with my colleagues.

I used to believe in the value of happy endings. Now I believe that the power of endings rests not in their unmitigated sunniness but in their poignancy and meaning.

Regret is not dangerous or abnormal, a deviation from the steady path to happiness. It is healthy and universal, an integral part of being human. Regret is also valuable. It clarifies. It instructs. Done right, it needn't drag us down; it can lift us up.

The end of the world came and my job did not change.

They say the nail that sticks out gets hammered down

How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too.

I'm not saying that this is how things should be. I'm saying that this is how things are.