Quotes About Acceptance

We see what we want to see, what we can tolerate seeing, and our partner does the same. Neutralizing each other's complexity affords us a kind of manageable otherness. We narrow down our partner, ignoring or rejecting essential parts when they threaten the established order of our coupledom. We also reduce ourselves, jettisoning large chunks of our personalities in the name of love.

Neutralizing each other's complexity affords us a kind of manageable otherness.

Marriage is imperfect. We start with a desire for oneness, and then we discover our differences. Our fears are aroused by the prospect of all the things we're never going to have. We

Marriage is imperfect. We start with a desire for oneness, and then we discover our differences.

My role as a therapist is to create a safe space where the diversity of experiences can be explored with compassion.

But, for many of us, renouncing the illusion of safety, and accepting the reality of our fundamental insecurity, proves to be a difficult step.

we can tolerate seeing

Looking back, he asks himself, "How could I not see?" But it is human nature to cling to our sense of reality, to resist its possible shattering even in the face of irrefutable evidence. I assure him that his "cluelessness" is not something to be ashamed of. This kind of avoidance is not an act of idiocy but an act of self-preservation.

These are not simply naive, lonely, desperate women who'll take love in whatever form they can get it. In fact, they are pragmatic about their reasons for choosing to not only live with a secret but be a secret.

Expect nothing, and you will enjoy everything!

Those who cannot easily forgive will not collect many friends. Look for the best in others and yourself.

Grace is the ability to accept change. Be open and supple; the brittle break.

Some things suck; they hurt bad. The question is, Do you have the courage to let them?

Non c'è niente di male nell'essere arrabbiato: nessuno te lo proibisce. Ma ti ci vuole una quantità tremenda di energia per continuare a fare finta di non esserlo.

Tamzene Donner was a woman at peace with the vagaries of life: "I am as happy as I can reasonably expect in this changing world.

In the cosmology of Western Christians, life's challenges provide opportunities to become stronger and to have a closer relationship with God. The burdens God sends to Christians in the Western world are incitements to self-improvement. The comforts that Amina found in her religious belief, by contrast, were not in an encouragement to overcome or learn from hardships. Rather, simply accepting her burdens was a continuous act of penance.

I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues...

One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

Don't give anybody up. . . or leave anybody out. . . . There's room for everything, and time for everybody, if you take your day the way it comes along and try not to be much later than you can help.--Spoken by Jack to Gloria

For he was not strong enough to receive the impact of unfamiliar things without a little talk to break their fall.

Her father left his questions unasked. But both knew, and for the same reason, that bad days go better without any questions at all.

Don't want to do a thing, Ran, do we, from now and on till evermore.

He seemed to give the changes his same, kind recognition--to accept them because they had to be only of the time being, even to love them, even to laugh sometimes at their absurdity

Bucuriile mele sunt triste pentru c? ele manifest? o acceptare a nu ÅŸtiu c?ror legi inferioare. Sunt deficiente fa?? de orice tristeÅ£e care nu trebuie s? priveasc? decât neîmplinirea mea în absolut.