Quotes About Acceptance

Set yourself free. Realize you already have everything you need and don't need anything else.

lo que nos ocurre y se nos presenta siempre es una bendición, incluso aunque no lo parezca.

Life is an inside job and it is much easier if we let it go and get out of our own way!

Todos sentimos un gran temor al NO, un enorme temor al rechazo. Sin embargo, si no nos arriesgamos a recibir un NO, nunca recibiremos los SÍ. ¿Qué pasa si la gente nos dice NO? Si lo pensamos bien, no es tan grave.

Não te irrites se te pagarem mal um benefício: antes cair das nuvens, que de um terceiro andar.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

Those academics books that makes you feel like you ain't good enough, they were written by a human being like you. You not stupid for failing, you just not understanding someone else's point of view and it is normal not to understand someone's point of view

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

We should accept indiscriminately all His dispensations, whether obscurity or illumination, fruitfulness or barrenness, weakness or strength, sweetness or bitterness, temptations, distractions, pain, weariness, or doubtings; and none of all these should, for one moment retard our course.

Typically, it begins with a seemingly minor character—Mussolini in a crowded cellar, Hitler on a street corner—who steps forward only as dramatic events unfold. The story advances when the opportunity to act comes and Fascists alone are prepared to strike. That is when small aggressions, if unopposed, grow into larger ones, when what was objectionable is accepted, and when contrarian voices are drowned out.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.

I felt she saw into me, past every facade and flourish, and that the more she knew me, the more she loved me. I was too young, then, to know how lasting this kind of love is, how rarely it comes in one's life, how difficult it is to accept oneself, let alone another.

What shook Ling the most was that she wasn't even angry. Anger, too, could dissipate, but this emptiness that took its place might never be released.

She told me I possessed what every great mathematician required, an excellent memory and a sense of poetry. I felt she saw into me, past every façade and flourish, and that the more she knew me, the more she loved me. I was too young, then, to know how lasting this kind of love is, how rarely it comes into one's life, how difficult it is to accept oneself, let alone another. I carried this security--Ai-ming's love, the love of an older sister--out of my childhood and into my adult life.

I never hated you. My anger was never with you, but with the little hell my heart had put me in. The anger always passed. I never regretted loving you. If I had gone to my grave never kissing you or touching you, I still would not have thought it a wasted love.

We need to always deal with the child in front of us, not the child of our fantasies.

When we turn away from evidence that seems relatively straightforward to others we are using denial.

All my life I have been moving forward, and now I am here. I have a mortal's voice, let me have the rest. I lift the brimming bowl to my lips and drink.

It's not fair," I said. "It cannot be." "Those are two different things," my grandmother said.

I have aged. When I look in my polished bronze mirror, there are lines upon my face. I am thickened too and my skin has begun growing loose. I cut myself with my herbs and the scars stay. Sometimes I like it. Sometimes I am vain and dissatisfied. But I do not wish myself back. Of course my flesh reaches for the earth. That is where it belongs.

I have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it—in such a way did I learn to live beside the rushing torrent if his doom.

For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty?