#Acceptance

"Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity."

"Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole."

"We can accept and embrace our pasts as part of the path that shaped who we are now."

"We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is."

"I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me."

"I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give."

"True love begins when you accept yourself in your totality. Then, and only then, can you completely love another."

"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."

"The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)"

"We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it."

"What comes, when it comes, will be what it is."

"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."

"I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it."

"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."

"My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations."

"We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success."

"You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining."

"Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it."

"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."

"My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks."