Quotes About Acceptance

There's a prison there, too, which always makes me feel included.

One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

Things turn out best for those who make best of how things turn out.

I also believe that things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.

You're just as good as anyone, but you're no better than anybody.

that things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.

Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.

Sometime you can do everything right and still lose. It's all a journey. You do your best, and then you have to let it go. Lots of people preach that, but come crunch time—oops, not so easy to do.

Things turn out the best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

there is one similarity between a prison guard and a leader: Both have the final word. When a decision is made, it must be accepted by those on your team, or they must be encouraged to find another team.

She now represents the Western United States, thus proving politics is even more accepting of the strange, unusual, and mostly useless than the music industry.

So, what you're basically telling me is death is boring but no worse than hanging out with family.

We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.

I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

If there's any message, it is ultimately that it's okay to be different; that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.

Die anderen Kaninchen hüpften herum und schrien Hurra und umarmten sich. He Duda, du bist ein Held!, riefen sie. Wie komisch, überlegte He Duda. Ich dachte, ich wäre ein Kaninchen.

Three days in Prince Charming's company and Agatha softened into the woman she'd been in Assisi. More smiles. Fewer frowns. Not so quick to criticize. She paused in her opinions to consider how they'd strike James. She paused in her eating to cast admiring glances his way. And now there she sat with a rare look of contentment on her face, her smile beaming up at James in the pulpit. Never in his life had Father Finn witnessed so clearly the transforming power of love.

Guess what? When it comes right down to it, wherever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that's what you've wound up doing. Whatever you are thinking right now, that's what's on your mind. Whatever has happened to you, it has already happened. The important question is, how are you going to handle it? In other words, "Now what?

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking. It's akin to letting your palm open to unhand something you have been holding on to.

Acknowledging that sometimes, often at very crucial times, you really have no idea where you are going or even where the path lies. A the same time, you can very well know something about where you are now (even if it is knowing that you are lost, confused, enraged or without hope).

To allow ourselves to be truly in touch with where we already are, no matter where that is, we have got to pause in our experience long enough to let the present moment sink in; long enough to actually feel the present moment, to see it in its fullness, to hold it in awareness and thereby come to know and understand it better.

So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.