Quotes about Acceptance

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.

God does not help those who help themselves; He helps those who know they cant help themselves.

Death and pain are not frightening, it's the fear of pain and death we need to fear. Which is why we praise the poet who wrote, 'Death is not fearful, but dying like a coward is.'

Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man—yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.

YOU love everyONE, whether YOU realize it or not. And everyONE loves YOU whether they realize it or not. Imagine what that means

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.