Quotes About Acceptance

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

Running away will never make you free.

The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.

The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.

Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.

That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.