Quotes About Acceptance

I don't think that anyone can age in a conscious way and not experience grief.

You have to look beyond race because as a human being you have to experience the person from the inside first

Every experience we have is necessary and perfect. In other words, everything is Perfect.

Peace isn't an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it's an experience that's expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that.

Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it, it delivers its gift and moves on.

How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.

When we experience our fear, when we say the words "I am scared," we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being 'scared' is not who we are. It is not our identity.

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.

Heaven is the experience of being completely present to all that is, all that you are, and all that you have to give. Are you choosing to live in heaven or suffer in hell?

I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.

Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.

When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.

I don't have any regrets. There's no point regretting anything because everything that you do gives you more experience and potentially makes you a stronger person or a better person.

I'm just going to embrace every experience.

You're letting go of having the best possible experience you can have regardless of who you are and where you are. I think that can be applied to all things, but it's easier said than done.

My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

When you feel victimized or sad, just allow yourself to cry; you'll feel better and have more room to experience joy.