Acceptance Quotes

To oppose something is to maintain it.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there-...

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these...

So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forget...

He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, thought not necessarily rare, t...

Often the prudent far from making their destinies succumb to them.

Better is the enemy of the good.

We do not write as we want but as we can.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and a...

I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you, None has understood you, but I understand you, ...

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.All seems beautiful to me...

Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual...

We cannot conquer fate and necessity yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater tha...

There is no easy path leading out of life and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive the trick is not to get fr...

I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'caus...

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with...

It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.

The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical n...

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

It is right it should be so Man was made for joy and woe And when this we rightly know Through th...

No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these ...

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he...

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied i...

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the diff...

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.

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

If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at...

Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to ackno...

The True Man of ancient times knew nothing of loving life, knew nothing of hating death. He emerged ...

He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mast...

If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was...

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoi...

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him r...

No man was to be eulogized for what he did; or censured for what he did or did not do. All of us are...

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.