Acceptance Quotes - Page 4

See, you’ve got to understand, son. There’s two types of guys in this world. There’s guys . . . who think they’re in control, and guys like us who live in the moment. Who accept life as it is.

Aberrant is not abhorrent

A true man never frets about his place in the world but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star.

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

I don’t know what I did to deserve someone as smart and beautiful as you.”"You were you. And maybe that was enough.

I look out onto this world I'm in and hope that one day all people will be accepted and valued as they are.

I hope for peace on earth and for all beings to realise their inner potential.

True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.

I seldom think about my limitations and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague like a breeze among flowers.

Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.

Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.

The place where you continually return for love and acceptance—that's home.

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.

Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

Genius is expansive irresistible and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you no cords can confine it.

Give yourself permission to enjoy this present moment. Resist the urge to fill it with I need to's, I shoulds, I coulds. Trying to fill all your present moments is impeding the natural flow of life.

Integrity is something we show, not proclaim.

Words have power, and when you speak you give them life. Speak into the atmosphere. Speak into existence what you believe, desire, dream, and hope.

Sometimes I am all right. Is this what they call letting go? I have let go, if letting go means I am all right sometimes.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

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.

The point is, being a Christian does not mean hating or belittling the non-Christians. Being a Muslim does not mean hating or belittling the non-Muslims. Being an Atheist does not mean hating or belittling the religious people. In a civilized society, diversity in religious orientation should be the reason for celebration, not the cause for hatred and differentiation.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm ... to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Seldom do we embrace a new idea, especially one of a religious nature.

I was calling you earlier when your name and number flashed up on my cell’s screen. But instead of it being you, it was Chris.”“You still have my number programed into your phone?

The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else, there is the Art of Acceptance.

We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves. We pollute the Earth that we live on, cut down the trees that produce our oxygen, destroy the ecosystems of nature and the animals that maintain them, and we mistreat and harm each other, thinking that these destructive actions will not have a direct effect on us.

If our logic is to find the common world intelligible, it must not be hostile, but must be inspired by a genuine acceptance such as is not usually to be found among metaphysicians.

We're truly alive when facing the prospect of our own mortality, if you convince yourself that you'll live forever, you'll never really have lived at all.

Love is a sacrificial item

The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence.

The more we accept the imperfections of life, the more perfect life seems to become.

Misfortune comes to all men.

When you accept fallibility within yourself you become more perfect.

Love and accept everyone for who they are, for where they are in life. That is compassion.

To Acknowledge Demonstrates Acceptance

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

Jesus’ command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in.

We ought to love one another

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you’re pointing a finger at.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.

When you put yourself on the page, but it will never be good enough for anyone else, when your raw, bloody heart's smashed into letters and words and paragraphs--can't they see the gore still dripping? What more do they want?-- and none of it matters?

What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest.

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

When you come up a bit short on excellence, you still win. When you strive for perfect, you’re just never quite good enough.

Maybe there in a set amount of crying your body needs to deal with any trauma. There’s a certain water-level of tears you need to shed until you can find acceptance or move on or whatever. And, if you don’t cry them out, they just catch up with you.

But can I say, now that she is dead, long dead that I only half believed in her. I wanted, I needed her to revolt. I know, revolutions take vast energy like volcanic eruptions. I know. And the sick must husband their resources even as they are resourceful for their husbands. But I couldn't help wanting for her, couldn't help the feeling that she'd given in, that she had measured out with coffee spoons what it was that she might ask of life and having found it lacking, tragically, gapingly lacking, had decided none-the-less to accept her modest share. I wanted her ignoble, irresponsible, unreasonable, petty, grasping, fucking greedy for the lot of it, jostling and spitting and clawing for every grain of life.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.

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.

I invite each of you to let go of your fears for just one day and say YES to life… say YES to love… say YES to You! You can always go back to saying ‘no’ another day.

So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forgetting I was strong.