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...

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.

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.

Whatever happens, love that.

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

Without appreciation (for yourself, others and life itself) there is no growth

We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we’ve been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval.

If you’d called me an ox, I’d have said I was an ox; if you’d called me a horse, I’d have said I was a horse. If the reality is there and you refuse to...

A leader learned to follow, and serves the followers who are learning to lead. ~T.F. Hodge

I had embraced you…long before i hugged you.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you could do one thing to improve yourself today, it would be this: Rid yourself of bias. If you can do this, you can learn to listen. If you learn to listen, then you...

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

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.

Nothing happens without God’s will, and life doesn’t always go according to plan. Man proposes, God disposes. And it is God’s will that we need to surrender to. In retrospect it usually all makes sense.

Whatever gets you through the night

I am here. I am in the present tense. I’m not always here, and sometimes here is a very difficult place. Sometimes it is a labyrinth, or a Minotaur, or a rope I can neither...

When you don’t fit in, be sure to stand out.