Acceptance Quotes

Against necessity against its strength no one can fight and win.

Who except the gods can live without any pain?

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up the reed avoided be...

I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use ...

The second hugely seductive move is to signal that we view the other person with a mixture of tender...

To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which th...

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And ...

We are never through with the requirement for acceptance. This isn't a curse limited to the inadequa...

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are e...

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects ...

She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: wh...

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept...

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

...Perhaps part of the secret of leading a life in which you would not always be worrying about thin...

we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and ma...

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like.

Now. Is this life or not?I be so calm.If she come, I be happy. If she don’t, I be content.And then I...

Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than others, even wh...

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

I made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with tons of personality, and accepting it m...

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, gender, be...

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get

I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I could be. There are parts I don’t love—until a few ...

Love your self's self where it lives.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another ...

I accept life unconditionally. ... Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be...

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken made ve...

If you are wise live as you can if you cannot live as you would.

No matter what age you are or what your circumstances might be you are special and you still have...

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have n...

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

My choice is what I choose to do,And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you.Your choice is ...

People remain what they are even when their faces fall to pieces.

Real life is to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

If our logic is to find the common world intelligible, it must not be hostile, but must be inspired ...

I didn't belong as a kid and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentne...

Cherish forever what makes you unique 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!

Art is the signature of civilizations.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about ...

It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.

She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone

You are so much more than you are willing to accept, child.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement...

It doesn't matter if the group is a church or a gang or a sewing circle or masculinity itself, askin...

Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging,...

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Make love to melike you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.

I've always been just me, but I was the last to know that it was all right.

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; f...

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can neve...

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate it oppresses.

Will is… difficult,” Jem said. “But family is difficult. If I didn’t think the Institute was the bes...

The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can...

He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

I could never acceptlife as it was,I could never gobbledown all itspoisonsbu there were parts,tenuou...

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to becom...

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about accepta...

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rathe...

Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. ...

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.

The desire to be cool is—ultimately—the desire to be rescued.

You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you kno...

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run f...

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adju...

But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I mu...

Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the f...

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm ... to let each wave of ...

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddled? Y...

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cann...

One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unf...

...Politics is an activity in which you recognize the simultaneous existence of different groups, in...

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to...

My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard o...

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possibl...

Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.

The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into ...

As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight...

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily,...

I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outca...

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this wor...