Quotes About Acceptance

there's a strength in not being strong.

Life was indeed a continuous lesson in finding ways to be less troubled by certain things, so that we might make room for new concerns, which arrived with the promptness and regularity of mail coaches.

Life was indeed a continuous lesson in finding ways to be less troubled by certain things, so that we might make room for new concerns

There's no point delegating a decision if you won't accept the outcome.

Few of us get the things we deserve,' Ndege said, 'but we make the best of what we're given.

Generally it's best to accept that things are exactly as bad as they look. At least that way you know it's time to start digging your way out.

As no one can adventure nearer the throne of God by virtue of his rank, his wealth, or his talent, so no one is kept farther from that throne by his low condition, or by his poverty of wealth, of learning, or of intellect. The prince and the sage are not more welcome to heaven than the poor and ignorant.

Maybe taking ourselves for somebody else means that we cannot bear to see ourselves as we are.

I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.

If you prefer to perform well and want to be accepted by others, you are concerned that you will fail and be rejected. Your healthy concern encourages you to act competently and nicely. But if you devoutly believe that you absolutely, under all conditions, must perform well and that you have to be accepted by others, you will then tend to make yourself—yes, make yourself—panicked if you don't perform as well as you supposedly must.

Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

Talk to me. I'll believe anything.

To be sure, the church has greatly assisted the colonialist; backing his ventures, helping his conscience, contributing to the acceptance of colonization even by the colonized.