Acceptance. It sounds so gentle; you foolishly imagine you might try it. As if you could choose. You don’t choose. You plummet into acceptance, because the floor has collapsed beneath your feet.

I know what it’s like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.

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.

The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.

Every advantage is temporary.

Sie wird gebraucht, unsere Schuld, sie rechtfertigt viel im Leben anderer.

No indeed. I will curse the stars and go down fighting. But it will still have been a wonderful thing, to cross the mist.

We must be willing to get rid ofthe life we’ve planned, so as to havethe life that is waiting for us.The old skin has to be shedbefore the new one can come.If we fix on...

Bad business last night. Chances are, that would be all Graham had to say about the death of a man he had known his whole life. These folk knew all about death. They killed their...

Acceptance. We want someone to look at us, and really see us—our physical flaws, our personality quirks, our insecurities. And we want them to be okay with every square inch of who we are. We’re...

Healing is the way of the heart. This book is an invitation to open our heart. Healing is a love affair with life.Healing is pure love. Love is what creates healing. Spiritual healing is to...

Life wants each of us to live on the ‘A Team’ – Wider, ever more intense Acceptance of good in our lives. Wider, ever more intense Awareness of good in our lives. Wider, ever more intense...

…you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.

Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while...

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It’s a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.

I don’t put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.

If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

I have learned a great deal from other Witches, Wiccans, Odinists, Voodoo and Hoodou practitioners, Druids and many others who consider themselves Pagan. The one common thread is that every single person has been nonjudgmental....

I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.

I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.

fulfilling it” is the real purchasing hour!

Either nobody’s perfect,or everyone is.

If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.

All my failures as a human being I blame on my father. Life is about accepting responsibility, and it’s time my father started being held accountable for my deficiencies.

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...

DENIAL OF EMOTIONSOur culture does not handle emotions well. We like folks to be happy and fine. We learn rituals of acting happy and fine at an early age. I can remember many times telling...

This moment is yours. The pain flowing into your life is an outcome of the choices you made. Don’t avoid the pain. Accept it. Avoidance will increase the depth of your pain while acceptance will...

To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside?Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every...

The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

all of me”.

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

Learning is the first quality of acceptance and vice versa

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...

At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m suffering for a love that’s not worth it.” We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because we...

Why hold secrets? Why harbor anything? Let me just share everything with you. Let me just talk. Let me let go of the censor that is within me … I’m tired of trying to be...

The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.

Expect nothing and accept everything. That is the only key to happiness.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief–acceptance.

Quit lying to yourself and accept your power and beauty. Liberate yourself from the slow-death you call life.

If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you’ll be successful. Once you start making a ‘Plan B’, you distract from ‘Plan A’, and the moment you...

I could never acceptlife as it was,I could never gobbledown all itspoisonsbu there were parts,tenuous magic partsopen for theasking.

Please do not break your heart over the withering of a dream you once held, that never became yours! After all, the shattered dream could have very well been a nightmare and not a dream...

When you’re lost, admit it, and ask for directions.

One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay to be in LTRs (long –term relationships). Monogamous, polyamorous, Femdom,...

That empty sick feeling came over me again. In a big school it was easy to fade into the background, but I didn’t know if that would be possible here. I tried not to think...

You don’t have to wait until you get to the top of a mountain, to enjoy the view.