Acceptance Quotes

You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.

~ Stewart O'nan

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

~ Deborah Reber

to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again.

~ Ellen Bass

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.''Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit. 'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.' 'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?' 'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

~ Margery Williams Bianco

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

~ Sylvia Plath

Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.

~ Vera Nazarian

A weed is but an unloved flower.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

~ Shannon L. Alder

True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself.

~ Steve Maraboli

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them, that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

~ Lao Tzu

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

~ Lance Armstrong

The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.

~ Joseph Campbell

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

~ Deepak Chopra

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

~ Bob Dylan

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

~ Joseph Campbell

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

~ J.k. Rowling

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

~ Ellen Degeneres

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

~ Michael J. Fox

The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.

~ Osho

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.All seems beautiful to me.Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.

~ Walt Whitman

I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.

~ Donzella Michele Malone

I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.

~ Isaac Marion

You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.

~ N.k. Jemisin

We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.

~ Suzy Kassem

I long for acceptance, but all I get is rejection.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.

~ David Sedaris

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

~ Chögyam Trungpa

There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

~ Lolly Daskal

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

~ Alberto Caeiro

I can't explain that, except to say there's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at least, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.

~ Mira Grant

The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'normal'.

~ Stacey Kade

And now, for something completely the same:Wasted time and wasted breath,'s what I'll make, until my death.Helping people 'd be as good,but I wouldn't, if I could.For the few that help deserve,have no need, or not the nerve,help from strangers to accept,plus from mine a few have wept.Wept from joy, or from despair,or just from my vengeful stare.Ways I have, to look at stupid,make them see I am not Cupid.Make them see they are in error,for of truth I am a bearer.Most decide I'm just a bear,mauling at them, - like I care.

~ Will Advise

Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.

~ Alberto Caeiro