“How many women are guilty of thinking they could change something about their partners? And how many then learned the hard way that no one can change another person? Odds are he isn't going to change once you move in together or when you get married - or ever. If you just can't accept some trait or…”— Jeannie Assimos, eharmony.com
“Always keep this idea in the forefront of your mind: You are not trying to find out if the person you are flirting with or dating accepts YOU. You are trying to figure out if YOU accept HIM. Does he have qualities that you value? Does he make you feel good? Does he treat you the way you want to be t…”— Maura Kelly, marieclaire.com
“You isolate yourself to keep others from finding out about your abusive past.”— Steven Farmer, amazon.com
“People who are habitually insecure in love relationships would say they are looking for acceptance, nurturance, and unconditional love.”— Carl G Hindy, J. Conrad Schwarz, Archie Brodsky, amazon.com
“We’ve been so busy trying to rewrite our own pasts, we’ve blighted their present.”— Jack Thorne, Harry Potter, amazon.com
“This variable we know as change cannot be feared, because it is the thing that takes us to freedom. It takes us to the place where blossoms bloom out of our own souls dark places.”— Leena Sanders, thoughtcatalog.com
“Change may be the only variable that results in our dull places, but it just so happens to be the only variable that brings us to our most effervescent state of being.”— Leena Sanders, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Your aura has lost its shine because of all the years you have convinced yourself that you are dirty inside and out.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”— Brené Brown, goodreads.com
“You think you know the answer, you’re going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? You think after what happened there’s any peace for you, sweetheart? How about this. Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Body acceptance means, as much as possible, approving of and loving your body, despite its ‘imperfections’, real or perceived. That means accepting that your body is fatter than some others, or thinner than some others, that your eyes are a little crooked, that you have a disability that makes walki…”— Golda Poretsky, amazon.com
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact…”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com