Quotes Tagged "acceptance"

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

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

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

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

Acceptance says, "True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me."

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

"Good enough never is" has become the motto of this company.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

Self-complacency is fatal to progress.

You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.