wholehearted acceptance Quotes

When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed in with the façade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.

You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.

I take the good with the bad. I can't love people in slices.

I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.

The Indian audiences have accepted me wholeheartedly. I find that very encouraging.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing and just delighted with any manifestation of yourself, bad or good. For true listeners know that if you are bad-tempered it does not mean that you are always so. They don't love you just when you are nice; they love all of you.

What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.