#Acceptance

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"There are only two ways to live your life. One as if all that matters is to have someone love and accept you. The other is as though loving and accepting another person is all that matters. Often, when you choose the second you get the first."

"When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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