Quotes About Acceptance

If you scald your arse, Sweetland's mother used to say, you got to learn to sit on your blisters. He said, "I got what was coming to me, I expect.

A body must bear what can't be helped.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

I am not afraid of being unloved. But I am terrified of never learning to love. There,

As the years passed, Ethan noticed that he recognized fewer faces than he had at the beginning, and by the same token an increasing number of residents failed to recognize him. He had never wanted acknowledgment, and thus he was at ease with the changing situation, merely finding it interesting the way so many people now walked past him, or through him, it seemed, as if he were invisible. This was to his liking,

That's life, Ash", the boy called into his ear. "There ain't no why, and there ain't no answers.

The second temptation is of a more sinister nature: the temptation to hate yourself because you have not lived up to your ideal. That is pride, and it is very dangerous. It opens the door to much worse things.

It was the kind of smile that seemed to exclude no one, without becoming abstract philanthropy.

In the schoolyard they had begun to gravitate toward each other, as outcasts will if they have not yet been taught to despise themselves.

Joining a new company is akin to an organ transplant—and you're the new organ. If you're not thoughtful in adapting to the new situation, you could end up being attacked by the organizational immune system and rejected.

the third imperative for onboarding executives: ensure that you understand what the expectations for success are and that you can accept those goals.

Joining a new company is akin to an organ transplant—and you're the new organ. If you're not thoughtful in adapting to the new situation, you could end up being attacked by the organizational immune system and rejected. Witness David's challenges at Energix.

love doesn't have to feel good in order to exist.

If we are going to love, we will be able to love someone else even if we never get what we want.

As we get older, we're all going to lose a few of our marbles.

Looking back, I see now that I accepted as normal the toxic gridlock and learned helplessness our political system teaches.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

Nationalism is the belief that no matter what one's country does—whether racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, or the like—it must be supported and accepted entirely.

we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.

life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing; it's about learning to live with the missing parts.

He has seen the bottomless nonsense of our world and has decided, like most of us, to simply try to tolerate it. He appears to have surrendered. It is rational,

Suffering is such a deep part of living," wrote Robert Kull, who lived alone on an island in Patagonia for a year, in 2001, "that if we try too hard to avoid it, we end up avoiding life entirely." The Tao Te Ching says that "happiness rests in misery.