Acceptance Quotes

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It’s a system that’s supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That’s how the system guides you through the world.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

I don't think I've ever felt anything other than lonely. "The saddest part of this was not the words, but the tone he said them with. So matter of fact; as though loneliness was the same as the colour of your hair or having too many freckles. A fact about yourself that could not be permanently altered.

The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it and if the world scoff let it scoff-if it sneer let it sneer.

Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy.

Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.

Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.

Figure out what you care about... and then care about it

Acceptance. We want someone to look at us, and really see us—our physical flaws, our personality quirks, our insecurities. And we want them to be okay with every square inch of who we are. We’re always afraid we might be too needy or too much work. We put all these limitations on ourselves and our relationships because we’re afraid that we’re not really loved. That we’re not really accepted. We hide little pieces of ourselves because we think that might be the one thing that finally drives away the person who’s supposed to love us.

Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.

Every change, those subtle-slow, and those drastically sudden, has brought me into myself.

Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.

You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.. live wild dont be a normal person.. to become presence, means accepting the risk.. and be sure if u don't take risks u'll have a wasted soul..

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome stubbornness is stupid.

There are billions of people in this world that don’t believe or act exactly as we do. It is not our place to reject them, only accept them. Again, we don’t have to agree with everything they believe or do, but we do need to love and accept who they are.

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight and with which he did not always willingly cooperate and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people.

You are BLOSSOM!

Okay I have arthritis and this is the way arthritis is. Take pain as it comes and you can better master it.

He was tiredof being calleda fag and teasedfor his sexualityby one of the guards,so he tried to hanghimself, twiceThe kid got a littlecloser the secondtime, but I won’t bearound to see athird

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life.

It is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same you all are. Don't expect anybody to be the same as you, then you will see that you are in many ways the same as everybody.

Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself the value he attributes to his own being?

We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm ... to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

He nods, looking through the pictures on the screen on the back of his camera. Some relationships can only exist as memories. But unlike ephemeral digital images that can be sorted and deleted, we can’t erase the past. We have to learn to live with all the images that are stored in love's archive, memories tagged good and bad. No Photoshopping. Accept the negative before moving forward.

I don’t dwell on the fact that I may have ridden on planes. That which I can’t remember having needed, I simply accept. It is the most preferable kind of self-insight: one that does not require any accompanying change in behavior.

Since then I have searched for my heroes among small-t truths. I always find them among people learning the art of acceptance: not acceptance of defeat or acceptance of some inability to influence their own futures, but rather acceptance of life on the planet, acceptance of the grays rather than the black-and-whites, acceptance of the astonishing range of human emotion and human behavior.

However difficult death is for us to accept, we must... how would we learn to appreciate each moment if it were not precious? If life were forever?

Each of us has a day ... when he has to accept finally the fact that he is a man.

The world needs the kind of religion that sets humanity free, not the kind that binds it with textual fanaticism. The world needs the kind of religion that humanizes the society, not the kind that dehumanizes it.

What keeps [friends] together? Common history, some shared conquests, a delight in ideas and people and living. But they will also be distinguished by their ability to listen to you. They will not be uncritical, but they will understand and accept you. You will be interested in each other's happiness and well-being.

Don’t be too quick to accept every direction from friends. Watch closely what your hear before your apply.

The more you resist change, the more it will be painful for you to accept it.

Children see things very well sometimes-and idealists even better.

Life is not always what one wants it to be but to make the best of it as it is is the only way of being happy.

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

All my life I have heard the term happiness thrown around like a buzzword as if it is something to be gained. As I have previously expressed, I do not view happiness as a tangible thing. To me happinesss is the elimination of accumulated darkness. Self-sustaining happiness comes from contentment of acceptance, compassion and sympathetic joy, qualities which cannot be developed like a muscle, but rather they must be actualized by the removal of fetters in the mind

Why can a man not act himself be himself and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness however small we may be.

I overcome the fear of losing.I overcome the fear of changing.I let go of what is going.I allow what is coming.

Love is a sacrificial item

To exist is to adapt and if one could not adapt one died and made room for those who could.

Everyone has baggage, maybe we should help each other carry it.

Each of us does in effect strike a series of "deals" or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.

To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.

Give yourself permission to enjoy this present moment. Resist the urge to fill it with I need to's, I shoulds, I coulds. Trying to fill all your present moments is impeding the natural flow of life.

When it comes to love and loss, acceptance is never easy. We can't make someone see all we have to give, make them love us, or make them change. All we can do is move on and stop wasting time.

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.

I'm not OK you're not OK-and that's OK.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life’s terms

It's a persons ego that leads them away. So I should say, let your mind be open to those things that affects your ego. Learn how to accept your mistakes and learn how to understand mistakes of others.

Borrowed thoughts like borrowed money only show the poverty of the borrower.

We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.

When you come up a bit short on excellence, you still win. When you strive for perfect, you’re just never quite good enough.

The thing is, there is no certainty in this life - in one second your entire world could shift. I'm not saying it will, but I am living proof that It can. We never prepare for tragedy and that's a good thing but my god what's it's taught me is how little we appreciate what we have or some cases once had.

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.