Acceptance Quotes - Page 3

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say these stories are silly and unrealistic, we are telling young girls not to expect to be the heroines in their own real lives.

So I can curse my pain all I want. I can try to leave it at the door. But maybe I should say grace, gnaw on its bones and thank it for nourishment instead. Maybe for now it's what's keeping me alive. And for now, I can accept living out of spite.

A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.

We are born into a realm of constant change. Everything is decaying. We are continually losing all that we come in contact with. Our tendency to get attached to impermanent experiences causes sorrow, lamentation and grief, because eventually we are separated from everything and everyone we love. Our lack of acceptance and understanding of this fact makes life unsatisfactory.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

And I understood why he didn’t need friends or to be accepted at our shitty racist high school, because he had his music, and that was so much better than anything we had to offer.

Celebrating love, wherever it is found" (Trevor Dennis). I'm using this sermon title as the essence of my novel

Having a religion doesn’t make a person love or not love others. It doesn’t make a person accept or not accept others. It doesn’t make a person befriend or not befriend others.Being without a religion doesn’t make somebody do or be any of that either.No, what makes somebody love, accept, and befriend their fellow man is letting go of a need to be better than others.Nothing else.

The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do-can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Make a virtue of necessity.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

Of all afflictions the worst is self-contempt.

For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one's dreams.

I care not what others think of what I do but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!

Life has its rhythm ad we have ours. They’re designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity. (285)

...here on Coney Island, we learn to take each other as we are.

The process of acceptance is to train your mind to focus on what you have.

Your suffering needs to be respected. Don't try to ignore the hurt, because it is real. Just let the hurt soften you instead of hardening you. Let the hurt open you instead of closing you. Let the hurt send you looking for those who will accept you instead of hiding from those who reject you.

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

To say that, “I will not agree (will not accept)” is great egoism!

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W.

Did other people have this much trouble fitting in, or was it just her?

Sometimes you just gotta accept that hope is gone.

I had embraced you...long before i hugged you.

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations it shatters them.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no matter where they're from, have been trying to understand this world of ours.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.

They weren't smiling and were looking in opposite directions, but it was as if their bodies flowed smoothly into each other's, through their arms and fingers. . . . There was a shared space between their bodies, the confines of which were not well delineated, from which nothing seemed to be missing and in which the air seemed motionless, undisturbed.

Accepting conflict brings you closer to knowing peace.

If, in your attempt to follow Jesus, you exclude, condemn or discriminate against someone, you are doing it wrong.

I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I could be. There are parts I don’t love—until a few years ago, I had no idea that you could have cellulite on your stomach—but not only do I get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side. Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? You bet I would. That is why it’s such a blessing that I’m not left to my own devices.

Ascension to successive echelons in the pyramid of awareness is an act of inclusion requiring unconditional acceptance of all that lies below.

Losing Foxen was bad. It would leave her blind and lonely in the dark. Being trapped beneath the pipes and choking out her life was awful too. But neither of those things were wrong.

O, weary angels, don’t look at me with those eyes.If that is your state then what of our cries?What can I tell you of goodness that you don’t already know?What can I tell you of faith,of hope and lovethat you yourselves bestow?O, angels, don’t pluck another feather,this isn’t the sky, it’s just the weather.Please, angels, try.We are one all together.Look up and listen, I’ll say it once and then put down my pen:We are sorry for our ignoranceand even though we are worldly,it might happen again.We are sorry for your wearinessand even though you aren’t worldly,we are no more than human.

Let peace be. Let life be.

I took a breath and watched as he leaned down over my exposed, lumpy belly. Very lightly, he kissed it. He kissed the spot beneath my ribs and all the way down to my navel. He kissed across my lower stomach, that wretched expanse where the stretch marks raked across my skin, then up and down my sides. Harry kissed every inch of my horrible flesh with a tenderness so great and loving, and all the while, my eyes stayed clenched tight. 'I am loved,' a voice inside me declared.

Truth is never a straight line; it is a circle that will take you back to what you know, in order to challenge your belief in what is fair, what is real, what is forgiveable, what is not and what type of person will you become today now that you know.

No matter how much you stress or obsess about the past or future, you can't change either one. In the present is where your power lies.

I don't care for the colour of your skin, I care for the size of your heart behind it.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

My rage is derived from eyes so sharp they see through the idiocy being passed off as sophistication. Under the cloak of universal themes and terms such as freedom, change, and acceptance, madness ensues, being readily welcomed by those whose mind's eye questions nothing.

Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.

I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as well dwell on the work of our teeth or on the mechanics of our walk. It is there, it will always be there, and I don't intend to spend my glorious hours looking over my shoulder to see death's icy face.

He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.

Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.