Quotes about Acceptance

When you plant a tree, if it doesn't grow well, you don't blame the tree.

When we are mindful, touching deeply the present moment, the fruits are always understanding, acceptance, love, and the desire to relieve suffering and bring joy.

We do not expect a person always to be a flower, we have to understand his or her gardens as well.

Of course, you have the right to suffer, but as a practitioner, you do not have the right not to practice. We all need to be understood and loved, but the practice is not merely to expect understanding and love. It is to practice understanding and love. Please don't complain when no one seems to love or understand you. Make the effort to understand and love them better.

I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.

Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

My school was pretty tough, and I played football there so I would be accepted, to save myself a kicking.

If I get dressed up, and my boyfriend says, 'You look gorgeous,' I kinda feel funny. I don't know if I'm particularly comfortable with being attractive.

I'm not that kinda guy to hold a grudge.

We have to learn to be kinder to ourselves.