Quotes About Acceptance

On Death and Dying, by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.

All I'm trying to say is that if you're not willing to observe this, if you're just going to condemn it, you're never going to see it. It's there, whether you like it or not. This is stupid life-force we're dealing with here," he said. "Think how old it is, Jim. Think how huge it is. Understanding it doesn't make any difference.

Acknowledging that losses are part of business is one thing; taking and accepting those losses in the markets is something else entirely.

If it didn`t happen, its because it wasn`t meant to.

I finally know that joy does not come from avoiding a problem or having someone else deal with it for you. Joy comes from overcoming a problem or simply learning to live with it while being joyful.

Change is inevitable. Whether you think it is positive or negative, you are right.

There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

I'd forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

As Nicholas Kristof wrote, "The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them. Too many whites unquestioningly accept a system that disproportionately punishes blacks. . . . We are not racists, but we accept a system that acts in racist ways.

Judge a book for what it is...not what you want it to be

We must not become morbidly fixated on our sins any more than we should become morbidly fixated on the death of a loved one. At some point, one must move on. But that point is not immediately after the sins have been committed or immediately after a loved one has died. There is a natural process that needs to take place.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

The problem is that when you get it, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

It's the process of making-do, of the life I've lived between breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life worth living. I could not bear a life with everything perfect.

Someone left the cake out in the rain, and, I don't think that I can take it, 'Cause it took so long to bake it. And I'll never have that recipe again.

So here is where I am so far, and this is all I know: the world is a big sardine can, and some of us are too agreeable for words. Most of us, really.

That's right, I, Human, Do not change. Thinking I can change is nothing but a delusion Trying to change without true reflection is simply foolish Human, Never, Change

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.— Colin Powell

The highest level of Christianity is total humility, total humility means not choosing the best, but letting the best chose you

Life's not how we want it sometimes. It just is what it is. So do what you love and make the most of what it "is".

I thought to myself, not for the first time in this life, Everything is perfect; all those things that I always think are so bad really aren't bad at all. Then I noticed that out my window the clouds had parted, the clear night sky was suddenly visible, and the moon — a garish yellow disk against a dark wall — seemed to be looking at me funny.

So a person who is truly humble recognizes both his capabilities and his limitations.

And the simple fact was that it might be possible to make oneself fall in love, but only when the heart was free. Amy was having to accept that her heart was not free.

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