Quotes about Acceptance

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding. Alan Christoffersen's diary

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain. Some people go to such lengths to avoid pain that they give up on life. They bury their hearts, or they drug or drink themselves numb until they don't' feel anything anymore. The irony is, in the end their escape becomes more painful than what they're avoiding.

Regret is a useless emotion: it's like brushing your teeth after you find a cavity.

Fate does not bend for us-we must bend to it.

They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault - it just sees beyond it as well.

He didn't understand that one person's love is better than a thousand people's approval.

Regret is a useless emotion.

They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault—it just sees beyond it as well. Kimberly Rossi's Diary

Because even that little boy knows that love can't be earned. The only true love is grace. All else is a counterfeit.

Love yourself. Respect yourself. And have faith. The older I get, the more I see that things tend to work out. Not always, but usually. Just not in our time.

Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.