Acceptance Quotes

"Failure is always an option" "There's nothing wrong with things taking time" "If there was a better way to go then it would find me. I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me" "The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside." "If you accept that the universe is arbitrary, what's the big deal? It just is" "When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be." "People saying that you’re not perfect, but you are worth it. " "To philosophize is to learn to die" "You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness." "Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome." "The most scandalous aspect of the scandal is that one gets used to it" "I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it. I say, Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I’ll be ready." "Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another." "I'm not perfect. I make mistakes." "In the end, everything is seen to be perfect " "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand " "When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees and some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever, and you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it, you just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are." "To understand is to forgive" "Our job is not to judge" "God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus "