Acceptance proverbs

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◆ The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

- Stephanie Perkins99

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

- J.K. Rowling99

◆ Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

- Lao Tzu99

◆ To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

- Elizabeth Gilbert99

◆ We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

- John Green99

◆ A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

- Jim Morrison99

◆ Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

- Ann Landers99

◆ No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

- Alice Walker99

◆ For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow99

◆ I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

- Sylvia Plath99

◆ Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

- Lao Tzu99

◆ A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

- George Eliot99

◆ I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.

- C. JoyBell C.99

◆ The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

- Andy Warhol99