Quotes About Acceptance

Don't be afraid of emptiness. Emptiness is divine. Let the divine fill up the space in a way that's really right for you. "Trying to fill it up too soon, blocks your gifts."

I always have the time, room and energy for more love"

Love: always inclusive, never divisive.

People who have stepped fully into their power know they don't have to push or force things; they know that real power comes from surrender.

You are never left out from having the experience of love. You can always give and receive love right from where you are at. It is always up to you."

So it is to be another Christmas, then, and another New Year's on my own. Well, it is all right. I have grown used to it, have come almost to prefer it. Those days for most adults, it is generally acknowledged, and perhaps for all but the fewest children are so grim. Along with birthdays and of course Thanksgiving, only worse. Why observe them, then, unless one is for the sake of the children, or the office, or someone else's sake, obliged to. Well, no reason.

We spoke of a friend of ours who had died the night before, at forty-three. "But my God! I'm forty-one," a bearded banker said. "Don't worry," his wife, who is German, answered. "There is no order. It is not a line.

Iedereen weet toch dat je alleen maar gelukkig kunt zijn wanneer je nergens naar verlangt?

She is afraid, and yet she wants the priest to see inside her and accept the monsters that wrap around the secret, pure part of her--the part she managed to save, miraculously, that so many of us have lost. she knows the monsters are there and yet wants to be seen.

Stop thinking that you have to know everything to understand it.

You can tell me everything, her eyes say, because I will see beauty in everything you say.

In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory.

guess?" Naomi sank into a chair. "Jerome," she

Now when those dark times happen, I curl into a ball on my cot and make a cape with my blanket. I remind myself I am not dust, but I should be. I tell myself I am made of the same cells as life itself even if I am a mistake.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

Yes, I pray and go to church and read my Bible. But sometimes I shake my fist at God. It's not the picture of peace I realize, and I certainly make no claims of wearing the armor of God. I'm lucky if I can get the underwear of decency on, all right?

The selfish thing to do was to play to everyone's needs to feel accepted. The unselfish thing to do was to be the person God created me to be, to serve him and people, to speak the truth, even when the truth wasn't going to make me popular.

Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.

Few survivors experience spontaneous recall especially if they have no awareness of the abuse ever happening. Most are forced to endure months or years of fear, confusion, and doubt as their memories surface. Dreams, imagery, feelings, and physical symptoms must be painstakingly faced and pieced together into a meaningful whole that the survivor struggles to accept as reality.

You may experience waves of disbelief after each memory you retrieve. Whether as a phase or waves, the disbelief is usually accompanied by massive self-hate and guilt. 'How can I even think such a thing? I must really be warped,' you tell yourself.

Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

I can tell I'm getting older, because I find myself using words like "spacious," "roomy," and "comfortable" when I'm buying underwear.

You can't change the way people are. You have to accept them just like you want them to accept you.