Quotes About Acceptance

if you could accept yourself right now, and everyone and everything around you, as perfectly okay…if you could let go of the idea that there are things in the world and parts of yourself that you just can't accept…if you could stop resisting reality and surrender to the present moment as God's perfect creation…you'd immediately be able to relax, embrace life, open your heart, and smile at God's creation rather than hold it in judgment.

Our thinking minds are so full of beliefs about how things "should be" rather than how things "are" that we refuse to accept reality as it is. We

Thus arises suffering—from our ignorance of the truth of life and our refusal to accept that truth. Our

Never deny yourself love, my child. For to deny love is to deny God's greatest gift. And who are we to deny God?

Loved ones are sometimes taken from us, either by death or other circumstances outside our control. Yes, we should lament their departure and yes, we should pray for them often. But we shouldn't dwell so deeply upon such vacancies that life itself becomes empty.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.

The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt—and there is the story of mankind. I think that if rejection could be amputated, the human would not be what he is.

We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

Nobody has the right to remove any single experience from another. Life and death are promised. We have a right to pain.

The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.

Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.

What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

I know it might be better for you to come out from under your might-have-beens, into the winds of the world.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

Let's get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let's close it like a book and go on reading! New chapter, new life.

Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.

Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.

Charles had more respect for Adam after he knew about the prison. He felt the warmth for his brother you can feel only for one who is not perfect and therefore no target for your hatred.

Most children abhor difference. They want to look, talk, dress, and act exactly like all of the others. If the style of dress is an absurdity, it is pain and sorrow to a child not to wear that absurdity. If necklaces of pork chops were accepted, it would be a sad child who could not wear pork chops. And this slavishness to the group normally extends into every game, every practice, social or otherwise. It is a protective coloration children utilize for their safety.

You can only fight Fate so far, and when you give in to it you're very strong; because all of your force flows in one direction.