#acceptance

And then Jonah heard God’s voice. “Jonah, do you know what the difference is between you and the trees?” He was confident it was God because God usually asked questions but gave no answers. Jonah didn’t need a divine answer to this question, he knew it. “Yes,” he said. “The difference between me and the trees is that the trees let go of their leaves. I keep holding onto mine. The trees make room for new life. I don’t. ↗

— David W. Jones

#death #death-of-a-loved-one #god-s-grace #grief #letting-go

Life happens, whether you're in it or not, but death doesn't give you a choice. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#choice #death #in-or-out #life #no-choice

Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be. ↗

— Heath L. Buckmaster

#growth #life #self-acceptance #self-realization #education

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#after #among #anguish #birth #copy

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#acceptance #equality #greater #just #marriage

You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#buddhism #dark-night-of-the-soul #enlightenment #love #meditation

A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree ↗

— Thomas Merton

#love

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. ↗

— Amy Bloom

#body-image #imperfections #self-acceptance #beauty

I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?) ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#body-acceptance #body-appreciation #clitoris #female #male

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#inspirational #misattributed #self-acceptance #inspirational