Quotes About Acceptance

Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire.

I no longer have it (desire to play).

I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.

Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.

The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.

I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'll find that later, that true self will come out.

People can think whatever they like. I don't desire their validation.

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead!

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.