Quotes About Acceptance

Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.

we should lean into the pain, instead of running away from it.

Parents love their children. We might not always approve of the things you do, we might not like your friends, and cringe at some of the choices you make, but that doesn't change our love.

Half full, half empty - it doesn't matter. It's the same glass of water.

You can't recapture your past anymore than you can speed up your future. Stop lamenting summer and stop trying to hurry winter. Just enjoy the fall.

As if with new eyes, Becca saw the beauty of the Amish way of accepting each day as a gift from God.

You're not a proper dragon', they sneered. 'You can't fly.' 'You can't breathe fire.' 'You're covered in feathers, you big...softy.' "We're covered in feathers,' says Bib. "Yes," says Mummy, "feathers keep us warm, but they can't keep cold words out.

People that don't like cats haven't met the right one yet.

Sometimes something is so badly broken you cannot recreate its original shape at all. If you try, you create a deformed, imperfect image of what you've lost; you will always compare what your creation looks like with what it used to look like.

Perhaps you would be better off finding some way to embrace your new nature, instead of fighting it.

Maybe it is time to get over your daddy issues and just deal with it.

Donata didn't have a problem with being naked, per se. Witches didn't have the same attitude toward the human body that Christians often had; nudity was accepted, and many Witches performed major rituals "skyclad." But she sure as hell didn't want to end up running through the building with her boobs flapping in the breeze if things went wrong.

Guilt can be a very destructive emotion.

My brother, are you aware that you are presently taking the form of a rather large and distinctly emerald-hued bear? Not that it isn't an improvement on your usual excessive good lucks, but...

DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though they have to hide in shame. DID develops as a response to extreme trauma that occurs at an early age and usually over an extended period of time.

Living in the present moment means accepting your experience, moment by moment, without judgment, which takes both practice and positive intention.

Understand that each part that is experienced internally is a part of you, a person with DID.

If we die, we want people to accept it. We're in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the programme. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

It's not prettier or better than other places and it sure a shell isn't an easy place, but I know how to live here. And that counts.

Men often substitute anger for grief, because anger is the only emotion they're taught it's acceptable to feel.

You can only do things one day at a time, sport. Sometimes life is so bloody that's the only way you can get through it. But the good bit about living one day at a time is that when nice things happen, you enjoy them more than people who are always thinking about the past or the future.

Even more important, I needed to follow the advice of the emperor Hadrian, as imagined by Marguerite Yourcenar: "Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those he has." I needed to learn how to see that though the cashier is sullen, she makes perfect change and that is enough

Jews, together with other religious and ethnic minorities, have always thrived in societies where freedom of speech and religion have been highly valued. They have blossomed in societies that welcome an array of cultures and beliefs.

I didn't create this world," she said to herself. "I only have to live in it.