Quotes About Acceptance

She learned that undoing regrets was really a way of making wishes come true.

She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made. Every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn't reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she had suppressed. She imagined accepting it all. The way she accepted nature.

The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale. She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.

Nimic nu dureaza la nesfarsit. Durerea asta n-o sa tina la nesfarsit. Durerea minte. Ignor-o! Durerea e o datorie pe care o platesti cu timpul.

Sometimes just to say you're truth out loud is enough to find others like you

I loved someone once. A woman. I loved her madly. Do you understand? We were together, in secret, for nearly twenty years. And we were told we couldn't talk about that love… because it was dangerous. It was dangerous to love […] There comes a time when the only way to start living is to tell the truth. To be who you really are, even if it is dangerous.

Maybe she just had no incentive to swim above the line [...]. Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change [...]. A starfish in every life is still a starfish. There isn't a life where a starfish is a professor of aerospace engineering.

Some would look at Emily's life and think that a child born with Down's syndrome has little hope for a meaningful life. Throw in the diagnosis of leukemia and that little hope turns into no hope whatsoever. I disagree. Emily's life, with all its imperfections, had great meaning. Because of how many people she touched, I realize that we are far more than what we can accomplish. We are the very thumbprints of God.

Sometimes we cannot control our world and hold it too tightly without squeezing some of the life from it.

But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn't make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though. But you don't get mad.

It never fails," Montrose said. "No matter what they do to you, afterwards it's like nothing happened. You're supposed to just be grateful you're still breathing.

I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.

I definitely think we get a lot of respect for what we do, but I definitely think that some people don't like us, which is fine.

We can excuse almost anything in America except losing. And we love a freak show.

I want to die with a smile on my face. Hopefully, it won't be mine.

Creep into thy narrow bed,Creep, and let no more be said!

They... who await No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

You ,as much as anybody else in the entire universe, deserve your love , your affection & your respect . Until you value yourself, no-one else will . Never be bullied into silence. Love yourself first and everything else will fall into line.

There will always be differing opinions, different moral codes, different ethical standpoints. We must accept that virtually nobody else will share our exact unique shade of moral ambiguity, and learn to live with that.

We must also cultivate courageous energy: the commitment to remain present with whatever arises to consciousness, without grasping or resisting anything that comes to the fore of the mind.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

Acceptance with God is the great thing we should desire and aim at in all our religious services, particularly in the Lord's supper, which is our eating of the sin-offering.

The gospel excludes none who do not exclude themselves.

In divine things we must not covet to know more than God would have us know; and he has allowed us as much as is good for us.