Quotes About Acceptance

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

Political life must be taken as you find it.

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.

When someone calls another individual ugly, all I see is that the one doing the insulting becomes instantly less beautiful. Consider it a compliment to be mocked for being different.

I always say, either take the steps to lose the weight you keep threatening to lose, or love the way you are.

Everyone, no matter her or his stage in life, has the right to feel beautiful.

I'm for anyone trying any kind of look. The only barrier is yourself. Do not worry about what other people think. - Angelique Noire

I say, enhance what others might deem less than wow and make that your beauty mark.

I realize now that the reason we often feel so bad about change is because of all those beautiful things that happen in our lives. I mean, I can't remember ever feeling sad about many things other than a great memory. I believe in contentment and love and laughter. I believe when we fear for our content it is then, most of all, we feel sadness.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

Life, the permission to know death.

Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.

Growing old is just a matter of throwing life away back; so you finally forgive even those that you have not begun to forget. It is that indifference which gives you your courage, which to tell the truth is no courage at all.

He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love) would eventually be a part of himself

Love us when we are dirty, not when we are clean. Anyone will love us when we're clean.

Kaži mi, ali savesno. Istinu. Ho?eš li, to jest, možeš li ti meni biti prijatelj bez obzira na ideje koje zastupam. Uvek, do kraja.

Od kajanja nema gore nesre?e.

Zbog mene ne treba i ne smeš ništa da menjaš u svom životu. To je tvoj jedini život. I nosi ga, sestro, do kraja. Ako sada pokušaš da se iš?upaš iz njega, bi?eš još nesre?nija.

Look at hopelessness in the face and say: "We are simply not meant to be together." Hold courage's hand and walk away.

Allow yourself a moment of grief when life's misfortunes visit you. However, do not spend your days building a monument in honor of them.

A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

It's too late to be ready.