Quotes About Acceptance

Galen Strawson, a philosopher who states with great bravado, "The impossibility of free will … can be proved with complete certainty." Yet in an interview, Strawson admits that, in practice, no one accepts his deterministic view. "To be honest, I can't really accept it myself," he says. "I can't really live with this fact from day to day. Can you, really?

But what progressives fail to understand is that every social practice rests on certain assumptions of what the world is like—a worldview. When a society accepts the practice, it absorbs the worldview that justifies it.

In order to grieve—I needed to "unlearn" the way I learned to ignore my agony.

I feel more at peace with being angry than practicing forgiveness. That never was an honest emotion for me. It was always someone else's concept of what I should do.

I never learned how to process my own pain.

Trying to forgive all these years, I had suppressed my anger and memories because I couldn't forgive if I acknowledged my experiences

Well," he said with a sigh, "psychology for years used to counsel to forgive. But we are beginning to recognize that it isn't always possible or even healthy to do that. I believe that sometimes it is important not to forgive, and to hang onto a healthy sort of rage at what happened,

When I stopped seeing Thomas, he told me that I would be "recovering" for the rest of my life.

It is my experience that you must heal in order to forgive.

Forgiveness is not a commodity that can be handed out. It is a relationship that must be entered into. — Karl Rahner

To understand is to forgive, even oneself. —Alexander Chase

Memories flooded back for me as I mourned increasing losses.

She had difficulty accepting adultery despite its prevalence among high-born men of the era.

There are no miraculous responses that will make intense feelings of fear, rage, sadness, and jealousy just disappear in a cloud of smoke.

Epictetus's core claim: We are all hostages of fortune in some way or other.

Some things are up to us and some are not up to us." —Epictetus "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." —Angela Davis "If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself." "Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?" —Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Epictetus opens the Encheiridion with that dichotomy of control: "Some things are up to us and some are not up to us . . . If is one of those things that is not up to us, be ready to say, 'You are nothing in relation to me.

To her, everything is beautiful in its own way, and everyone is a friend just waiting for her. And somehow it works for her.

We bastards are not to blame for any of it.

Perhaps every family is odd.

The most terrible thing about marriage, I suppose, is that we know and understand each other's weaknesses and fears as much as we know our strengths and desires.

Perhaps every family is odd." "You can't build a straight house out of crooked wood, but you can build a very cozy crooked house

The only forgiveness I can muster is to call him human. 

Teddy Lamont couldn't be more gay if he turned up wearing rainbows and carrying a pride flag.