Quotes About Acceptance

I shift my focus from trying to fix the other person and the situation to allowing God to reveal some tender truths to me.

Today's rejections, big or subtle, are like stealth bombs that zing straight to my core, locating hurts from my past and making them agonizingly present all over again.

No puedo controlar las cosas que me suceden cada día, pero puedo controlar cómo pienso al respecto.

Judgment is not always required. You don't need to have an opinion on every issue.

I always knew death of this relation would be the death of my life.

I always knew death of this relation would beat the death out of my life.

We need to let our family and our friends know this truth—God is love, "and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him. —2 Nephi 26:33

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

Ultimately love is everything.

Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Once we truly know that life is difficult — once we truly understand and accept it — then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

And I said, how about taking a quick trip up there now?...It took them just ten minutes to decide, and by lunch-time...we were off. Some friends are so satisfactory. You may not agree with them in everything or anything, but it doesn't matter. You like each other just as you are. It is the contact and rubbing up against other ideas that is stimulating and rewarding.

I had become comfortable with my own numbness; to suddenly remember I was male and not yet dead was a nuisance.

Art frees us from our prejudices and gives us the chance to become our best selves, individuals who dare to dream. And even if those dreams aren't always as pretty as we'd like, or don't conform, or frighten us, it is our duty to encourage art to flourish. All art. Every kind.

Too many people try to assuage pain that can never be eradicated. All you can do is salute the grief, acknowledge that you carry it, too, and that even though we all travel that path alone, we are not alone in traveling it.

much of life requires waiting and we have a choice to do it happily or miserably.

It is ever the lot of children to accept their circumstances as universal, and their particularities as general.

Almost nothing lives here anymore, except where we plant it? No. No, no, no. We don't know any of that. We have tea parties with our teddies. We go sledding. We enjoy being young. We take what's coming to us. That's our way.

People want to forget. You can't blame them.