Quotes About Embracing

I try not to go down the 'what if' road very often. It isn't fruitful and just makes you feel crummy.

Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?

Whenever I'm terrified of anything, I jump to it.

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

As producers, you always have to go with the flow and be ready to embrace change, and drama and whatever happens.

you stop judging events as either positive or negative. Rather, simply experience them, celebrate them and learn from them.

Homosexuals want their depraved 'values' to become our children's values. Homosexuals expect society to embrace their immoral way of life. Worse yet, they are looking for new recruits!

we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.

I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.

I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on to the weight of life that slows us down and robs us from finding our lives.

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".

Risk, the willingness to accept an unknown future with open hands and happy heart, is the key to the adventures of the soul.

They were a family. Her mother said that all the time, and then she would pick up Eddie and pull Adria close to her in a hug at the same time. If Daddy was there, he'd put his arms around them all and make what he called a family sandwich with his children in the middle.

I'm sorry it didn't work out," Linda says. Florida smiles at the girl. "Everything ends," she says. "That's nothing to be sad about. What matters is what starts in that moment.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

There was no point in weeping for ever for things that you couldn't change, things you could not have. It had stood her in good stead all of her life

I lost nothing I regret losing," Witch said softly. "I am what I want to be.

Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.

Joy exists only in self-acceptance. Seek perfect acceptance, not a perfect life.

My Aunt Bess is about sixty-five years old and has never been married. She told me that they may put Miss on her tombstone, but that she hasn't missed a thing.

Fantastic days are what you wish upon those who have so few sunrises left, those whose lungs are so lesion-spangled with new cancer that they should be embracing as much life as they can. Time's a-wasting, go out and have yourself a fantastic day! Fantastic days are for goners.

I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.