Quotes About Acceptance

As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation will once again see the miraculous resurrection of the proud, responsible, visionary black father. And with him, his family and community will be lifted.

Flannery O'Connor quote: "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

If don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good" yo may deprive yourself of joy

There's a difference between pain and suffering," Wendell says. "You're going to have to feel pain—everyone feels pain at times—but you don't have

O terapeuta explicou que, com frequência, diferentes partes do nosso íntimo querem coisas distintas, e se silenciamos as partes que consideramos inaceitáveis, elas encontrarão outras maneiras de se fazerem escutar.

to suffer so much. You're not choosing the pain, but you're choosing the suffering." He

1) As a therapist, I know a lot about pain, about the ways in which pain is tied to loss. But I also know something less commonly understood: that change and loss travel together. We can't have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.

Because at the end of the day, love wins.

But I also know something less commonly understood: that change and loss travel together. We can't have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.

I was holding on to a future that had been canceled. I was watching Boyfriend's future unfold while I stayed locked in the past. I'd need to accept that his future and mine, his present and mine, were now separate and that all we had left in common was our history.

If you don't recognize that the perfect is the enemy of the good, you may deprive yourself of joy.

I think about how it's the not knowing that torments all of us. Not knowing why your boyfriend left, not knowing what's wrong with your body. Not knowing if you could have saved your son. At a certain point, we all have to come to terms with the unknown and the unknowable. Sometimes we'll never know why.

Mas por que agora?", pergunto, tentando colocar minha nova pergunta com graça: "Parece-me que você estava com aqueles móveis havia... hã... um bom tempo?". Wendell ri. Não escondi muito bem o subtexto. "Às vezes", ele diz, "as mudanças são assim".

none of us can love and be loved without the possibility of loss but that there's a difference between knowledge and terror.

Not knowing is a good place to start," he says, and this feels like a revelation. I spend so much time trying to figure things out, chasing the answer, but it's okay to not know .

But . . . if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things . . . about Holland.

some point in our lives, we have to let go of the fantasy of creating a better past.

There's a difference between pain and suffering," Wendell says. "You're going to have to feel pain—everyone feels pain at times—but you don't have to suffer so much.

A therapist will hold up the mirror in the most compassionate way possible, but it's up to the patient to take a good look at that reflection, to stare back at it and say, "Oh, isn't that interesting! Now what?" instead of turning away.

Your feelings don't have to mesh with what you think they should be," he explained.

They'll be there regardless, so you might as well welcome them because they hold important clues.

how our histories affect the ways we think, feel, and behave and how at some point in our lives, we have to let go of the fantasy of creating a better past.

What people don't like to think about is that you can do everything right—in life or in a treatment protocol—and still get the short end of the stick. And when that happens, the only control you have is how you deal with that stick—your way, not the way others say you should.

In this room, I'm going to see you, and you'll try to hide, but I'll still see you, and it's going to be okay when I do.