(14 quotes found)
“There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.”
Stacey Charter
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”
William Shakespeare
“If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance”
Orville Wright
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely”
Carl Gustav Jung
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
“The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”
Peace Pilgrim
“I saw a star, I reached for it, and I missed. So I accepted the sky.”
Scott Fortini
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.”
Joan Chittister
