Acceptance Quotes - Page 5

Don't go the distance trying to fit in the crowd and be accepted by others. Accept and respect yourself first. Loving thyself also goes with this."-Elizabeth's Quotes

Your self-worth and self-esteem cannot be changed by doing positive affirmations. If that were the case many people would be super confident and are not. It may appear to work for some, but only because they have already faced the hurts inside that have caused low self-worth and low self-esteem, and are ready to feel differently. Acknowledging the pain and the suffering that take place inside you, and allowing the feelings, will take time, but this new way of handling these feelings will change the way you relate to you and to the outside world.

to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again.

Is it your background, then?" Lord Franton smiled and shook his head. "That need not worry you. You're a wizard now; what you were before does not matter to me.""Yes, it does," Kim said softly. "Because part of the time you're sorry about it, and part of the time you think it makes me interesting, and part of the time you ignore it. But you never forget it.

A psychologist’s job (if it’s done well) is to get you to seriously laugh at yourself.

Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.

This need to be right has put a huge burden on me, one that I never deserved to have to carry. Part of it, I know, is cultural--in this age of information at a moment's notice, we've come to expect people to have answers--the right answers--at the drop of a hat. I feel very fortunate that over the last decade or so I've been able to leave the need to be right behind me and move on with my life with a more healthy perspective. I'm now willing not just to admit that I'm wrong, but also to stick my neck out with ideas or thoughts that may be wrong. The possibility of being wrong no longer threatens my emotional well-being; if I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I learn from that.

Remember, everyone you meet is really trying to do the best they can. No one woke up today and intentionally decided to be mean, difficult, or unreasonable - including you.

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept his lot calmly even if they roll a few more upon it.

I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral.

Loving someone who does not love you back hurts,alot, i know.It is liking seeing these pair of shoes at theretail store which do not fit you.Chances are, if you buy them knowing theyare a small size,you will have blisters and probably hurt your toes.What i mean is,not everyone will love you back,therefore, never shove your love downanyone's throat.Accept it and appreciate the ones that do love you.

To truly accept a thing one must have no inner tension about it.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.

Mary watched the sunset from her carriage window, realizing that such beauty could never last. Life was a golden glory that faded in the wink of an eye. Life was a village fair that only lasted for a single day. As the carriage rattled along, rocking her like a babe in arms, Mary felt very old and wise. She found that she didn't mind being taken back to the castle, to a caring captivity that was filled with comforts and kindness. And she also found that she couldn't keep her eyes open.

Jehovah, the Christian name for God derived from the Hebrew Yahweh, (from the letters YHWH), is translated as "I AM." YOU ARE the essence of life—the Cosmic Consciousness that creates, lives in, and destroys all things. In Buddhism, your true nature is referred to as your “Buddha Nature.” Muslims refer to it as Allah, Native tribes have often called it the Great Spirit, Taoists refer to it as the Tao, and numerous other cultures throughout history have all created their own distinctive names for it. But the one eternal reality that these cultures point to remains the same—and this reality is YOU.

I... know what I do and am unmoved by men's blame or their praise either.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes by making them the fruit of his character.

To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

Karma does never return to punish. Its role is to assist with solving what has been left uncompleted. It always returns to you, when you are strong enough to look at it. You never are asked to deal with more than you can handle. So relax and accept what is being offered to you. Accept it as a gift of love.

One of the best things you can do in life is to embrace who you are. Once you do that NOTHING can stop you. You have found the greatest gift that has been given. The gift of self importance.

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.

Some of the pain released, and love filled the cleared space, uniting, magnetizing more self-love to it.

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.

There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are.

America is a great country. We have a lot to be proud of, and a lot to look forward to being proud of. But let's not ever forget to look back into the past, learn from it, and embrace it, for to deny the past is a dark path to go down.

It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me?

God is the ultimate ground of Being, and this ultimate ground of Being is YOU. For one who realizes their true nature as God, as Consciousness, life becomes a joy without end.

To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

What I’m starting to realize is that when you conform, people are not accepting you for who you are. They’re accepting you for who they think you are.

Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper.

The desire to be cool is—ultimately—the desire to be rescued.

If you were to love, love not for the lust that you yearn but the rather the pain that you earn with it. Remember though that the ones who brave the pain are eternally bound in Cupid's chain. It is these chains that many of us fear. The fear of losing the freedom of choosing for self. The fear of placing the needs of our better halves before our own. The fear is understandable for history has taught us to despise and the society has given us the chance to entice. However, if you were to pause and think ever about - love - then do remember that the chain which upon acceptance binds you in amour is the same which upon rejection arrests us to an ague called lonesome depression. Few survive in love, but fewer without it.

There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet.

The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.

It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

The only real certainty is that if you get to live, you gotta die. Live life now.

Alice would choose to love herself, different and extraordinary, every day of the week.

Acceptance is the sense of belonging.

All we know is what we're told.

It wasn’t that everything was going my way, but I began to believe that the way it was going was perfect. I accepted that where I was in life, was exactly where I was supposed to be.

I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own terrified minds. Because if even one broken and limited human being could experience even one such episode of absolute forgiveness and acceptance of her own self, then imagine—just imagine!—what God, in all His eternal compassion, can forgive and accept.

The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. ... That was all wrong.

Be vulnerable! It is not someone else’s responsibility to break down your walls to get to you. It is your responsibility to let them in. This is crucial. Be more vulnerable with people in your life today. Know that being vulnerable is not a weakness – vulnerability means you are strong and secure enough within yourself to walk outside without your armor on.

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

Two things I learned a long time ago, Cate: Don't hold a grudge longer than it takes to work your way through a pan of brownies all by yourself, and don't begrudge someone an apology if they deserve it.

Ask not that events should happen as you will but let your will be that events should happen as they do and you shall have peace.

You cannot be aware of yourself, for you are awareness itself. How can a witness witness itself? That is like trying to see your own eyes without a reflection, or cut a knife with the tip of its own blade—it is impossible. The subject can only observe the object; it cannot make an object out of itself. But by the very act of observing, you indirectly know yourself as the observer, as the subject. No witnessing of the witness is needed to prove its existence.

...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

Faith is about the connection of people as much as it is about God. We are called to be in community and treat others with divine love.

And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.

The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.

The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'normal'.