Acceptance Quotes

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska t...

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understa...

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasi...

Whatever gets you through the night

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to be...

The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrou...

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him o...

We must be willing to get rid ofthe life we’ve planned, so as to havethe life that is waiting for us...

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s ...

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, beca...

I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral.

Man adapts himself to everything to the best and the worst.

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is ...

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intole...

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with one...

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if ...

...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and adm...

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

Ours must be the first age whose great goal on a nonmaterial plane is not fulfillment but adjustme...

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

She had believed the land was her enemy and she struggled against it but you could not make war ag...

A man shares his days with hunger thirst and cold with the good times and the bad and the first ...

I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.

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

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilien...

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

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery because we have ... the need to fool ourselves continuously ...

Acceptance and Work If you have a job without aggravations you don't have a job.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.

It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? Bu...

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex...

Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatu...

Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is a misfortune " but...

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish...

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a...

Woman must not accept she must challenge.

There are some people that you cannot change you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone...

Why can a man not act himself be himself and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness al...

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me I've got to get out.

You are unique and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you settled for.

We suffer but little from suffering itself; but from the manner wherein we accept it overwhelming so...

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...

We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in suc...

Of all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself and not by ...

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to...

A man must live in the world and make the best of it such as it is.

What you can't get out of get into wholeheartedly.

Science says: "We must live " and seeks the means of prolonging increasing facilitating and amplif...

Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a we...

The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever...

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind...

You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. A...

It is the lies he's telling her - as he has been, Nassun understands suddenly, her whole life - that...

Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gav...

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem the more likely one will tr...

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that p...

Never deny a diagnosis but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly ret...

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.

Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist...

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what ...

Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing g...

Losing Foxen was bad. It would leave her blind and lonely in the dark. Being trapped beneath the pip...

Bad business last night. Chances are, that would be all Graham had to say about the death of a man h...

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself in spite of being unacceptable.

At some point, we have each said through our tears, "I'm suffering for a love that's not worth it." ...

The boy continued to listen to his heart as they crossed the desert. He came to understand its dodge...

Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

Everybody wants to do something to help but nobody wants to be first.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour...

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand they strain into the ...

Learn what you are and be such.

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy let us enjoy it.

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all childr...

Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It i...

What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love...

Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only...