Quotes About Embracing

We all know that everything will end some day, but we can not let that slow us. We must not let that stop us from living.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

WEIRDNESS IS ONLY WEIRD IF YOU FIGHT IT.

The U.S. should prohibit perpetrators and supporters of Islamist brutality from entering the country while embracing advocates for religious freedom. End of story.

I don't think I would ever have plastic surgery; there isn't anything I'd want to change.

A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.

I have such a beautiful love for myself—and the sweet part of it—no rivals.

But hope is not about what we expect. It is an embrace of the essential unknowability of the world, of the breaks with the present, the surprises. Or perhaps studying the record more carefully leads us to expect miracles - not when and where we expect them, but to expect to be astonished, to expect that we don't know. And this is grounds to act.

Fear wants our answers to be neat and pretty; freedom doesn't care if the truth is messy.

Forgiveness is impossible without embracing innocence, yours and theirs

There are no alternatives. You live with what is. And you don't let your ghosts rent room in your head.

It's sad, but life is not fair. I sometimes think it was never supposed to be. Life is made up of moments, good and bad. But while you don't get to pick all the moments, you do get to pick which ones you cling to.

I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting thing for today?' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow.

Confidence, the sexiest thing I put on in the morning.

Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.

Forgetting isn't the key to moving on. Remembering is, because only once we've remembered can we forget.

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

Don't conform. Don't live in a small dirty pond when the ocean of life is lovingly inviting you.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.

We have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief.

It is okay to be flawed and defective, or even wonderful