There is no other company in the world I’ve found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is...

Everyone has baggage, maybe we should help each other carry it.

I have always felt deep within myself that I do not trust that I am already OK as I am, and that I do not trust that life takes care of me. But now I...

You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.

When our hopes for performance are not completely met, realistic optimism involves accepting what cannot now be changed, rather than condemning or second-guessing ourselves. Focusing on the successful aspects of performance (even when the success...

I live there…where the birds are infiniteeverywherewhere they fleeit’s a place your eyes can wanderbut never seeWhere everyone accepts me,Without any pretenseIt’s a place your mind can picturebut never really comprehend.

Sometimes you can’t figure out the truth because you’re asking people that are emotionally or socially invested in you to be brutally honest. Often family or friends will tell you what you want to hear,...

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

Blame anchors us into the past; a place we cannot change. Acceptance frees us to the future.

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely...

The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we’d like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands, but only because we have to keep up with the rest...

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.

There’s a drive in a lost soul—in one that is searching for acceptance, companionship, belonging, whatever you want to call it. The slightest coincidence ignites a spark that one hopes will lead to something meaningful.

Things you call wrong, describe your levels of acceptance and understanding..

Don’t be too quick to accept every direction from friends. Watch closely what your hear before your apply.

turn our lives and our wills” over requires something very difficult for a spiritually wounded person to accomplish – Trust. Yet, to accomplish this step, trust of the spirit must be present.

I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

Be whoever you want to be. Party all night if you want. Just come home to me.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on...

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

Learning to sit with ambiguity can be a very important start at a life liberated from anxiety—and the way to do it is to resist the urge to chase answers to questions that may actually...

They sky is never falling…thing will work out, they ALWAYS work out. Stay focused, accept everything as perfect and keep moving forward toward the direction of your goals.

When you have acceptance of who you are there is no need to discuss your past.

Sometimes you have to embrace the darkness to stop it.

I don’t think I’m destined for love.

You ask a certain question again and again, in a sincere fashion, and the answer appears. But, in my experience, at least, that answer arrives according to it’s own mysterious celestial timing, and often in...

This easy acceptance of an opaque limit to our speculative insight; this satisfaction with a Being whose character we simply apprehend without comprehending anything more about him, and with whom after a certain point our...

…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.

I don’t feel that way anymore,” Nico muttered. “I mean… I gave up on Percy. I was young and impressionable, and I- I don’t…”His voice cracked, and Jason could tell the guy was about to...

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as...

Sometimes when we care about someone, we deny what’s right in front of us so we can move forward, so we have a reason to continue to love.

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

What to AcceptThe fact of mountains. The actualityOf any stone — by kicking, if necessary. The need to ignore stupid people, While restraining one’s natural impulseTo murder them. The change from your dollar, Be it...

The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won’t get any better than this.

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

When you accept fallibility within yourself you become more perfect.

You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its...

I looked at her. Sheila was my girl–the girl I wanted–and wanted for keeps. But it wasn’t any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It...

Why couldn’t he see the tragedy of what was unfolding? Was it because it was too painful, or was it because holding onto hope and dying was better than living if it meant you were...

A weed is but an unloved flower.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.

Let the water flow beneath the bridge; let men be men, that is to say, weak, vain, inconstant, unjust, false, and presumptuous; let the world be the world still; you cannot prevent it. Let every...

They say grief occurs in five stages. First there’s denial followed by anger. Then comes bargaining, depression and acceptance. But grief is a merciless master. Just when you think you’re free you realize you never...

Perfection is an illusion. Allow yourself room to make mistakes and permission to be happy regardless of outcome.

There was a lot about my life that was crappy, now that I couldn’t talk. But if I hadn’t gotten drunk that night, if I hadn’t gotten in that accident, would I have ever had...

Accept who you are and the power of your might.

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.

AcceptanceThere are things I missthat I shouldn’t,and those I don’tthat I should.Sometimes we wantwhat we couldn’t—sometimes we lovewho we could.

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