Quotes About Acceptance

I am not sure of the future," he says, "b."ut I will take it as it comes." Adjust, after the fact. Do not simply react to the possibilities.

I am not sure of the future," he [Cohen's father] says, "but I will take it as it comes." Adjust, after the fact. Do not simply react to possibility.

I don't think any of us are prepared for the bitter pill we're sometimes asked to swallow.

Let this hell be our heaven.

If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.

The young guns on your team will always want to write things themselves because it appeases their ego, whereas your more experienced people are more likely to accept that someone else has given thought to the problem domain and has something to offer in terms of a solution.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

The real battle of depression is between parts of the self. Depressed people are pulled under by shadows, ghosts, pieces of themselves that they can't integrate and can't let go. The harder they work, the more they do what they know how to do, the worse things get. When their loved ones try to help in the usual ways, the commonsense ways that only seem natural expressions of caring and concern, they get rejected.

By learning to let go and to allow the world and fellow human beings to be who and what they truly are, a disciple frees her or himself to love—to the death.

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Our culture's quest to hide death behind a facade of denial has made fools and pretended immortals of us all. Perhaps it would be more helpful and liberating to begin each day by repeating the words of Crazy Horse, "Today is a good day to die.

Home is where they don't want to kill you," Jack said.

Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.

Sometimes it takes travelling the world to realize that it isn't ok to be different, it's freaking awesome!

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

You know, I've wondered if it's more painful to lose someone you love to death or to lose someone you love because she no longer loves you back." "I don't know," I said. "On the surface, it seems an easy question. It should be so much easier to lose someone who doesn't love you, because why would you want to be with someone who doesn't want you? But rejection's not an east road. A part of you always wonders what makes you so unlovable.