Acceptance Quotes - Page 8

If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you’ll be successful. Once you start making a ‘Plan B’, you distract from ‘Plan A’, and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.

The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.

I don't put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.

And like an epiphany just landed on my shoulder, everything feels right. A calming acceptance settles over me, and I know, that even through the twists and uncertainty of time, it's okay if my heart sometimes leads me.

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.

Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens.

We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.

All defensiveness and emotional tumult is a fear response because of your need for acceptance and ruthless control of the territory of your safe fantasy world.

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.

My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.

We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.

We do not have to see the beginning and the end of our lives, but we must close our eyes and live as if we didn't start or would never end.

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

Embrace courageously the challenging beauty of life.

I look like a stinking pond that you always run away from,but there are some beautiful lotuses inside that pond

We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable. That’s all just a set of lies we tell to soothe the experience of the prisons we put ourselves in.

The beautiful world is just one thought away. It's already there just waiting for us to realize and to accept it.