Accepting Quotes

“Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Out of the bedroom window, Tara watches the silver moon in the night sky cast a faint glow on the pine trees.  Ian was right.  It’s time to move on.  Not to forget, but to forge ahead.”
― Dawn Chalker

“People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.”
― Ancient China Knowledge, The 36 Stratagems in Ancient China War: 三十六计

“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.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I suppose it doesn't matter what form love takes, maybe you just need to take it when it comes.”
― Albert Borris, Crash Into Me

“We don't create our feelings; they simply come to us, and we have to accept them. The trick is, to welcome them.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Hygge / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

“Ah romance, when you must stop accepting your own reality and start believing in someone else’s.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“Every storm is a classroom and every person a lesson or teacher.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Lead looked to his hand and saw sparkling chunks of glass in the cracks of the road. He saw ants running around the cracks, infinitely small. His blood ran into the cracks, creating rivers for the industrious ants to perplex over. Lead smiled at the creatures, for he understood that there is no difference between them and us in their wanderings and labor.”
― Nathan Yocum

“Love is about accepting another - heart, soul, body and mind, and caring for them deeply.”
― Merlyn Gabriel Miller, Sex, Death, Drugs & Madness

“I avoided his stare, turning for the kitchen. 'You must be hungry, I'll heat something up.'

Rhys straightened. 'You'd- make me food?'

'Heat,' I said. 'I can't cook.'

It didn't seem to make a difference. But whatever it was, the act of offering him food... I dumped some cold soup into a pan and lit the burner. 'I don't know the rules,' I said, my back to him. 'So you need to explain them to me.'

He lingered in the centre of the cabin, watching my every move. He said hoarsely. 'It's an... important moment when a female offers her mate food. It goes back to whatever beasts we were a long, long time ago. But it still matters. The first time matters. Some mated pairs will make an occasion of it- throwing a party just so the female can formally offer her mate food... That's usually done amongst the wealthy. But it means that the female... accepts the bond.'

I stared into the soup. 'Tell me the story- tell me everything.'

He understood my offer: tell me while I cooked, and I'd decide at the end whether or not to offer him that food.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“we listen to views that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“I always cherish moments in the aftermath, never truly understanding their impact twined with my life experience in that very second. And to me, that is a beautiful realization.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Those who choose love - daring to feel to the depths of being, accepting responsibility for their actions, and seeking a purpose in life - will find that the world of significant living will unfold its cleverly concealed presence.”
― Barbara Marciniak

“Someone very dear to me once pointed out that supporting someone and fixing them are two different things. Loving and accepting all the broken pieces is the very definition of friendship.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“Warm, strong fingers cupped her chin, calluses scraping against her skin.

She let him lift her head. She hadn't realised he'd come closer. That only inches separated them. Unless she'd been the one to drift toward him, drawn by every brutal word.

Cassian kept his light grip on her chin. 'Whatever you need to throw at me, I can't take it. I won't break.' No challenge laced the words. Only a plea.

'You don't understand,' she said, voice rasping. 'I am not like you and the others.'

'That's never bothered me one bit.' HIs lowered his hand from her chin.

She straightened. 'It should.'

'You say that like you want it to bother me.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“An external smile is an expression of gratitude. An internal smile is the contentment, knowing and accepting the fact that nothing is permanent.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“The reason for sorrow is not recalling bad happenings but not accepting that it’s gone and out of control. Smile that there was learning from it.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“there are also deeper forces behind our resistance to rethinking. questioning ourselves makes the world more unpredictable, it requires us to admit that the facts may have changed, that what was once right may now be wrong. reconsidering something we believe deeply can threaten our identities, making it feel as if we’re losing a part of ourselves. rethinking isn’t a struggle in every part of our lives, when it comes to our obsessions, we update with fervour, we refresh our wardrobes when they go out of style, and renovate our kitchens when they’re no longer in Vogue. when it comes to our knowledge and opinions though, we tend to stick to our guns. psychologists call this ceasing and freezing. we favour the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt and we let our beliefs brittle long before our bones”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“part of the problem is cognitive laziness. some psychologists point out that we’re mental misers, we often prefer the ease of hanging on to old views over the difficulty of grappling with new ones”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“You embrace death because life doesn’t exist without it.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“In error I find truth, in you I found a place; and in all of this, I found nothing but nothingness. Contentment in my own gain and movement without seeing your face. Doubt where I knew I was wrong. We grow to exceed in our own self worth and in error we find our greatest truths.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Love’s deepest wisdom lies in the art of release. We are drawn to hold tightly, yet the grace of love unfolds when we allow each other the freedom to journey in our own direction.”
― An Marke

“...to enter a relationship without any struggle - inner or outer - which, of course, does not mean that we do not have any problems in life but when we bring the inner and outer life into harmony, accepting whatever comes and goes, then we are at peace and can act right way and thus flow with life, with nature, with love.”
― Stelian Aconi, Unveiling our True Reality: with the Wisdom of the Awakened Masters

“I’m not thankful for being fucked over, I’m thankful for what I took from it. What I learned. What I taught myself in that particular moment. I'm grateful someone was able to take me there and let me be in that moment - not with them, but with myself. How my emotions could surrender to someone and make me feel everything I felt. It destroyed me, but I made my way through; and I look back years from, and I still love him, I do.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Ik denk aan Marouan. Alweer. En aan het bericht dat ik hem gestuurd heb aan het begin van deze week. Net als jij. Jij bent het waard om voor te vechten. Kennelijk toch niet, want als puntje bij paaltje komt, durf ik het niet aan. Zelfs bij Eline niet. Ook naar mezelf niet. Eerlijk zijn is allemachtig.”
― Hinke van Abbema

“It is truly amazing how long we can go on accepting myths that oppose our own lives, assuming instead that we are odd exceptions.”
― Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

“Embracing pain strengthens the will; embracing crying heals the soul; embracing melancholy deepens insight and perception; embracing boredom fosters creativity and imagination; embracing misery instills bravery; embracing ridiculousness preserves sanity; embracing chaos creates peace; embracing invisibility sets one free; embracing despair teaches acceptance of the inevitable; embracing pessimism prevents suicide by tempering hope; embracing meaninglessness cultivates patience and resilience; embracing purposelessness allows one to be out of the box; embracing rage generates an inexhaustible source of fuel; embracing loneliness unites with the self; embracing uncertainty gives a sense of excitement; embracing temporariness nurtures a great sense of humour; embracing lack of belonging liberates from illusions; embracing alienation unveils the very nature of things; embracing resignation soothes restlessness; embracing inability to embrace gives peace; embracing unhappiness brings true happiness...”
― Sov8840