Quotes About Acceptance

Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too ideal, too imaginary. Dreaming by day, I mean. Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

It is always better to live with reality, because otherwise, without fail, reality will come to live with you. —The Aghori Vimalananda

Is it really so bad if no mound is built over your bones, and you are tossed out unburied? What odds does it make if you are cremated, exposed to be eaten by dogs or ravens, or consumed underground by worms?

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it.

There is only one unpardonable sin, and that is to withhold pardon from others.

judgment, as it is portrayed in the parables of Jesus (not to mention the rest of the New Testament) never comes until after acceptance: grace remains forever the sovereign consideration. The difference between the blessed and the cursed is one thing and one thing only: the blessed accept their acceptance and the cursed reject it; but the acceptance is already in place for both groups before either does anything about it.

Jesus didn't shy away from sinners, so why should the church? And don't tell me the church welcomes sinners. I know better. It welcomes only sinners who repent and then never seriously need forgiveness again.

Grace perennially waits for us to accept our destruction and, in that acceptance, to discover the power of the Resurrection and the Life.

Only when you are finally able, with the publican, to admit that you are dead will you be able to stop balking at grace.

Grace cannot prevail until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

judgment falls not on the unacceptable but only on those who will not accept acceptance

Getting older... mostly it entails accepting the unacceptable.

Cuando no penséis, cuando tan sólo améis, ya no volveréis a «intentar» comprender o amar; simplemente lo haréis.

Os he estado buscando –le dijo al mago–. He estado perdido durante meses. —Toda vuestra vida lo habéis estado –le corrigió Merlín, mordiendo una zanahoria y compartiéndola con el conejo más cercano. El caballero se enfureció. —No he venido hasta aquí para ser insultado. —Quizá siempre os habéis tomado la verdad como un insulto –dijo Merlín

Queréis decir que una persona no puede cambiar si se juzga a sí misma o a los demás? ?preguntó el Caballero. Merlín asintió: ?Exactamente. Si juzga a otro, uno no se permite a sí mismo ver el cambio que experimenta.

Nunca nos deshacemos de algo que nosotros mismos hemos creado. Sólo podemos abrazarlo como algo nuestro y no sentirnos mal por tenerlo ?respondió Merlín.

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

My Cup" They tell me I am going to die. Why don't I seem to care? My cup is full. Let it spill

There's nothing like surrounding yourself with people who actually like you just the way you are–people who are not trying to improve you, change you, manipulate you, save you, etc. There is a line. On one side of the line are those who will give you the news–good, bad, and indifferent. They care about you and your success. On the other side of the line are those who do not actually care about you and have motives other than true support.

Often, the person reaches a point where there is a choice between two conflicting interests: reducing the emotional discomfort or seeing what is really going on. The person needs to make a value choice at this point. Which is more important to you, seeing reality or feeling okay? Almost always, the person chooses to see reality, and therefore, to let the emotional chips fall wherever they may.

You love your child for who the child is, not as an extension of your identity or as an example of your good parenting or even as a companion.

To the reactive-responsive person it is not acceptable to spend your life on what you love, because what you love is not tied to the circumstances.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.