Quotes About Acceptance

May the days be aimless. Let the seasons drift. Do not advance the action according to a plan.

Sometimes I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.

If you don't have the grace and wit to die early, you are forced to vanish, to hide as if in shame and apology.

Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?

Maybe that was the answer I needed, the one route back. So simple. To decide to love the age.

Why shouldn't his death bring you into some total scandal of garment-rending grief? Why should you accommodate his death? Or surrender to it in thin-lipped tasteful bereavement? Why give him up if you can walk along the hall and find a way to place him within reach? Sink lower, she thought. Let it bring you down. Go where it takes you.

But there are different kinds of death, David. And I prefer that kind, his kind, to the death I've been fighting all my life.

What do you think the afterlife is, a body of facts just waiting to be uncovered? Do you think the U.S. Air Force is secretly gathering data on the afterlife and keeping it under wraps because we're not mature enough to accept the findings? The findings would cause a panic? No. I'll tell you what the afterlife is. it's a sweet and terribly touching idea. You can take it or leave it.

She lived just three blocks away, in a faded brick building whose limitations and malfunctions she'd come to understand as the texture of her life, to be distinguished from a normal day's complaints.

But there are different kinds of death, David. And I prefer that kind, his kind, to the death I've been fighting all my life.

if you leave yourself at home and are eager to let the world remake you as it sees fit, you can be at home almost everywhere you go. Home is the condition, the state of unencumbered ease, you export to everyone you visit. —

If you tell someone you love him, and that person says 'Well, I don't love you, is that a reason for you to suffer? Just because someone rejects you doesn't mean you have to reject yourself. If one person doesn't love you, someone else will love you. There is always someone else. And it's better to be with someone who wants to be with you than to be with someone who has to be with you.

When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do. Even if others lie to you, it is okay. They are lying to you because they are afraid. They are afraid you will discover that they are not perfect.

Nikada ne možete biti ono što niste. Možete biti samo ono što jeste i to je sve. A upravo ste ovoga trenutka ono što jeste i to bez ikakva napora.

Don't take anything personally

Wyobra? sobie ?ycie bez l?ku przed podejmowaniem ryzyka i poznawaniem ?wiata. Nie boisz si? czegokolwiek straci?. Nie boisz si? ?y? i nie boisz si? umrze?.

Prawdziwa miÅ'o?? akceptuje drugÄ… osobÄ™ takÄ…, jakÄ… ona jest, nie próbuje jej zmienia?. Równie? twój partner powinien ciÄ™ kocha? takim, jaki jesteÅ›, by wcale nie chciaÅ' ciÄ™ zmienia?.

Open your heart and refuse to walk around the world begging for love.

The quest to be right is about sekf-importance: we need to be right in order to accept ourselves; this is a condition we place on our sekf-acceotance and our acceptance of others. The quest for truth, on the other hand, is the desire to discover--regardless of whether our beliefs are supported in the process.

Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important.

We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.

One way of overcoming the fear of the new is to make it look like the old. This practice is decried by design purists, but in fact, it has its benefits in easing the transition from the old to the new. It

People invariably object and complain whenever a new approach is introduced into an existing array of products and systems. Conventions are violated: new learning is required. The merits of the new system are irrelevant: it is the change that is upsetting.

There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the meaning of the balloon; this subsided, because we have learned not to insist on meanings, and they are rarely even looked for now, except in cases involving the simplest, safest phenomena.