#Acceptance

"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."

"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."

"Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are."

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

"True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that was exactly like you."

"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."

"A boo is a lot louder than a cheer."

"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."

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

"There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance."

"For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W."

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

"Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most."

"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."

"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."

"She doesn’t want me to leave, and she doesn’t want me to stay. That’s a double helping of Doesn’t Want Me, and one big I’m Not Hungry back at her."

"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."

"If you fear rejection, you won’t embrace acceptance. But don’t push yourself onto others, because they won’t pull you close."

"The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply."

"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."