acceptance

Breathe in, take what life hands you; hold it, accept it; breathe out, let it go.

The entire quest is for acceptance. You run from pillar to post for being accepted as you are. This quest ends only when you realize that the most important in life is to accept yourself totally, wholly and completely. Unfortunately, that is a long drawn process and it takes time to reach that level. However, once you reach that stage, you are at entire peace with yourself.

Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.

And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak...

Accept yourself irrespective of your imperfection and express your skills.

Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy.

Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race _ it is beyond religion _ it is beyond all sectarianism.

When you hide your flaws you only give them the power to dominate your life. Every time that you fake who you are to cover your flaws, they become stronger and visible to your own eye. You become comfortable with working every day to hide them from everyone else's view. And maybe you try to show the world those flaws but they are rejected because you've hidden them for so long that they couldn't possibly be a true part of you. But then, you show them to the world every day, day after day, and they finally start to disappear from view because they really never were a really big deal in the first place. Accept your flaws or you will never truly be able to live with them.

Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change.

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

She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Be vulnerable! It is not someone else__ responsibility to break down your walls to get to you. It is your responsibility to let them in. This is crucial. Be more vulnerable with people in your life today. Know that being vulnerable is not a weakness _ vulnerability means you are strong and secure enough within yourself to walk outside without your armor on.

Respect everyone who crosses your path, even if you feel they don't deserve it.

I guess love distorts our perception of reality, and it__ even harder to recognize the truth when it__ buried underneath layers of what we imagine relationships should be like.

Sometimes our heroes let us down.

Just as I__ about to continue walking along the shoreline, the left third of the iceberg breaks off suddenly and crashes violently, like a high-rise apartment building imploding in the heart of the city. Tears roll down my face uncontrollably as I watch the two distinct halves of the iceberg drift further and further apart from each other. It__ devastating to watch something that seems so strong and unbreakable crumble in an instant. Even more devastating is the feeling that there__ nothing I can do about it.

When we respond to our pain and suffering with love, understanding, and acceptance__or ourselves, as well as others_ over time, we can let go of our anger, even when we__e been hurt to the core. But that doesn__ mean we ever forget.

Sometimes you have to fight for the past and sometimes you have to let go.