#acceptance

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

— J.K. Rowling

#inspiration #inspirational #smart #understanding #wise

Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#commitment #expectations #love #motivational #respect

The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out at it, ‘Why did you take her? You, surrounded by all of your twinkling stars and infinite wonders and darkness. There’s already enough beauty where you are. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#closure #death #denial #grief #loss

I'm not talking about the blood ecstasy. I'm talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. She aches with it. She needs to be accepted for who she is so badly. And I was able to do that. Do you know good that felt? To be able to show someone that, yes, you are someone worth sacrificing for? That you like them for their faults and that you respect them for their ability to rise above them? ↗

— Kim Harrison

#acceptance-of-others #friendship #friendship-true-and-loyal #inspirational #love

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#forgiveness #lessons #those #tolerance

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#acceptance #age #always #around #attached

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#got #mean #means #resignation #something

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world. ↗

— William Glasser

#begins #build #client #control #counselor

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#anger #attack #bush #confusion #days

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance. ↗

— Max von Laue

#complete #did #initially #major #meet