psychological acceptance Quotes

Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.

...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.

There is a thing called the death wish, a literal thing. It doesn't mean you want to die. It just means however we're built, as we get into these years, some inner part of you does begin to accept the fact that you're heading towards the end, and there's a peace that comes with that.

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection, and self-healing. Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around him, takes his bearings, and says, "Well, where do I go from here?

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.

Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

There's a good reason for the media hating me. And once I came to grips with that fact, that there's a reason they should hate me, then it makes sense. One of the toughest things I had to do was learn to psychologically accept the fact that being hated was a sign of success.

You don't need the painful memories, because either you've resolved them. Denying always makes them want to come back. Denial is a mechanism that doesn't work. But allowing them to come back in little by little, those memories, you can begin to be quite comfortable with them, and it's even nice to have that as part of the map of your life.