Quotes About Acceptance

We must accept at the same time a historical and social explanation of psychoanalysis and a psychoanalysis of the history and social facts.

It is a paradox to not want to infringe upon the will of the loved being. To love is to accept undergoing the other's influence and also to exercise influence on the other.

In the last analysis each one of us knows for his own part that the world as it is, is unacceptable.

I'm not afraid of death.

I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more...

What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the possibility of a naked body is something special.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Tolerate the dull: they too have their story

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.

Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

When you love someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image.

The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.

Oh, this yearning to be white, this yearning to have straight hair, this lifelong striving to be different from the way one is created this great difficulty in accepting oneself, I knew it and saw only my own longing from outside, saw the absurdity of our yearning to be different from what we are...

How can the heart accept the signals of the brain, however powerful and rational, that a known universe, in which the blotter stands where it has always stood on the office desk, the sofa in the lounge of the house, the shop on the corner of the street, is about to disappear for ever?

Shikata ga nai: it could not be helped. If this was a monumentally inadequate excuse for condemning millions to death without hope of securing any redemptive compensation, it is a constant of history that nations which start wars find it very hard to stop them.

God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be.