Quotes About Acceptance

He set forth his intractable ideas but was never partisan or restricted to his own subjective stance. He moved alone with the spirit of heaven and earth, and did not exalt himself above all things. He did not dispute right and wrong, but sought to live peacefully with the prevalent views.

Zhuangzi said, "Affirming some things as right and negating others as wrong are what I call the characteristic inclinations. What I call being free of them means not allowing likes and dislikes to damage you internally, instead making it your constant practice to follow along with the way each thing is of itself, going by (5:23) whatever it affirms as right, without trying to add anything to the process of life.

Colui che non riesce a trovare spazio per gli altri manca di comprensione, e a chi manca di comprensione tutti risultano estranei.

The body gives up faster than the soul. Time wrinkles it, wounds it, debases it. Varicose veins, menopause… Time makes it a caricature… The body plays along, a good sport. The soul, though, is a sore loser. It needs more time to blow out the candles. It only concedes in fits and starts… through painful revelations… through a series of frights.

Better to remember goldilocks and three bears story my late uncle taught me that this quote for Doug devos ok

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."—GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

My dear child...fault is an empty word. It is a coin with only one side. It is not a reason or an excuse.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.

It is always difficult, the transition from noisy refusal to humble acceptance.

Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

I think the only necessary conclusion is that we are too beautiful, because being not beautiful at all just doesn't make sense.

When someone is your husband or father, that's simply who they are. You don't stop to question much about them, unless you're given reason to, and they'd never been given reason to.

the feeling of being ugly in the body that is probably the most beautiful you will ever have

I was attracted to girly boys and boyish girls, or girls who later became boys. Boy were always going to be part of the equation.

Meant to be?' It's just something people say so that they don't have to look at all the things they did wrong and wish they could take back. Only by the time they figure that out, it's too late.

Leave it for God to do!!

It is what it is and Life Goes on

You need the capacity to see beauty even when it's not pretty every day.

A great leader never fears criticism and welcomes them with openness and love as if they are the beauty of the journey.

A woman always wants to change her man but a man wants her to be unchanged.