Quotes About Acceptance

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

It came to me then that I could take comfort in knowing my father and my mother were dead, that death's mystery had already embraced them. They had gone on ahead, had broken the trail, and because of that, death seemed a little cozier, a little safer, a little less terrifying. Because my parents were already there - in death - I saw I could afford to enjoy the sunlight for as long as I possibly could. Sitting beside my father's grave, I was glad - and proud - to be alive.

This body is yours. No one can ever take it from you, if only you will accept yourself, claim it again--your arms, your spine, your ribs, the small of your back. It's all yours. All this bounty, all this beauty, all this strength and grace is yours. This garden is yours. Take it back. Take it back.

her final words seem to ripple outward like waves of water from a thrown stone—don't remember don't remember don't remember don'trememberdon't "Remember?

I been good. Real good. Gettin' old, but nuttin' I can do about it. If I wake up in the morning and see the sky, I know it's gonna be a good day.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

You want me to talk about love, to give you a hold, something to feel, to admire or obtain. I will not give you a straw to grasp, and in this emptiness you will be taken by yourself. You are love so don't try to be a lover.

Welcoming, openness, is the nature of life.

What do you think about astral travel? And about getting out of the body? ... I do not know about it. I am very happy in this body. Why should I get out? [laughter]

You are the guest of joy, you cannot impose yourself.

In welcoming all that is, we live our freedom, openness, directionlessness, desirelessness.

Everyone hates the mob, but everyone belongs to it

If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.

If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.

I like to live my life now with peace, patience, serenity, forgiveness, gratitude and acceptance of myself.xx Jean

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

At four years of age children accept without surprise that which is daily paraded before their eyes

I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn't really care.

I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.

Sentirse auténtico significa ser libre para desarrollar rasgos y potenciales que son predisposiciones innatas. Cuando somos aceptados y se nos permite ser auténticos, es posible tener autoestima y autenticidad a un mismo tiempo.

Once caught, the jig is up; whining is conduct unbecoming a crone.