Quotes About Embracing

Greenspan calls this "spiritual bypassing"—using religion to dodge the dark emotions instead of letting it lead us to embrace those dark angels as the best, most demanding spiritual teachers we may ever know.

At every place and time throughout your life, take frankly what that place and time can give you, and think of its limitation as advantage rather than harm. —JOHN RUSKIN

'Fat' was a terrible, terrible word for me growing up. When I was able to reclaim it and call myself fat and identify with it, that was the best moment ever. That was the moment I really started to feel free.

I really love being a redhead. Even though it's not my natural colour, it makes me feel more like myself.

By letting go of my fears and concerns, I've gained so much happiness and freedom. With that freedom I've also gained confidence.

Don't be afraid to be who you really are. Enjoy it and don't take it and yourself so seriously. I probably wouldn't have listened, but if I did, I would have saved myself some heartache along the way.

You cannot hide yourself from any situation.

The more originating, living, visible truth, embracing all truths in all relations, is Jesus Christ. He is true: He is the live Truth.

Art is a reminder that you actually do contain multitudes--and that's OK.

My main message is for people to live your life through love. That doesn't necessarily mean through a relationship. It could be your friends, your family, your workplace, even just walking down the street and smiling, saying 'Hi!' Embracing positivity!

I don't really plan anything in my life, to be honest. I just kind of go with it: whatever comes comes.

There's that thing that if you want to have any kind of lasting love, I think you have to love the whole person and not just the parts of them that you choose.

in my small pocket of my own isolated country, I felt like I understood my world and myself, but now, I'm actually embracing not knowing and I'm questioning much of what I thought I did know. I kind of like being confused, wrestling with contradictions, and not having to wrap up issues in a minute before a commercial break.

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.

Scars are nothing to hate, they are nothing to deny. They serve as our proof of what we've survived, and there is nothing more beautiful than to have survived something.

Awakening and owning the dreams that God has placed in our hearts isn't about getting stuff or attaining something. It's about embracing who we are and who he has created us to be. In him.

This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily death. It is the willingness to embrace the fundamental bewilderment of a finite, fallible creature as the basis for leading a life that no longer clings to the superficial consolations of certainty.

When to stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

Love every part of yourself. Even the things that frustrate you. They make you who you are!

I wanted to live as Edouard did, joyfully, sucking the marrow out of every moment and singing because it tasted so good.

I wanted to live as Édouard did, joyfully, sucking the marrow out of every moment and singing because it tasted so good.

Do I mind? No! Because that's the way he is. He's a human being! Nose hair and all!