Acceptance Quotes

What you resist, persists....Let go and your life will flow.

~ Nanette Mathews

Sure all life's highways at some point must end, so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive when the pavement runs out...And hopefully leave behind artistically that which may make other roads an even better ride...

~ Tom Althouse

No matter how different one looks or may seem, all are just shades in the colorful rainbow of life that loves everyone, no matter if they are short, purple, or green.

~ Jennifer Sodini

The purpose of life is to reach a point where you can say 'yes' to all of it.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Only when we accept the fact that the world is never exactly as we see it through our individual lens of perception will we be able to accept ourselves or the mystery that is life itself.

~ Hal Zina Bennett

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

~ Alain De Botton

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

~ John Knowles

at last he understood that he has always been forgiven and worthy of love,and that no one could take that from him, that not even he could take that from himself.

~ Scott Stabile

But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take the plunge all at once, a plunge that includes comprehension and especially incomprehension. And who am I to dare to think? What I have to do is surrender. How is it done? I know however that only by walking do you know how to walk and - miracle - find yourself walking.

~ Clarice Lispector

Life was all about consequences

~ Liane Moriarty

Maybe you don’t need to understand her, maybe you just need to want to.

~ Jeannine Allison

It is our Spiritual nature to understand, accept and allow our human nature.

~ Maximus Freeman

You play the hand you’re dealt. You play it without false hope or despair, without comparing other people’s hand, or questioning why you’ve got this hand, you just play it, as best you can, today, and the next day, and the day after that.

~ Lindsey O'connor

Understand the flaws and you will know the perfection of the Universe.

~ Ka Chinery

It’s easy to love those we like, but what about those we don’t, and why would we anyways? There may be someone who doesn’t like us, yet they’re accepting of us, unconditionally loving us.Love means, I accept you as someone as imperfect as I am, someone who wants security and acceptance, someone who may be scared and shows it in the wrong ways, someone who is as worthy of my understanding, love, and acceptance as may feel I am of theirs. Someone who needs someone to love them first.

~ Russell Kyle

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

~ Criss Jami

When one person attempts to “fix it” for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver miss an opportunity for understanding.

~ David W. Earle

If you love people, you have no desire to judge them.

~ Steve Goodier

My father nodded. His nod was for me. Different. But not different at all. My father understood. Maybe he had known. Maybe he hadn't. It didn't matter anymore. He understood. I knew he understood, just from his nod, just from his eyes on mine, making his eyes kind for me, and the wave of pain went away for a moment.

~ Adam Berlin Belmondo Style

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

~ John Knowles

When they find what they don't like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they've ever seen.' 'Why?' asked Isobel. 'Because . . . because of what they believe.

~ Gordon Dahlquist

All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish...and between those who are truly happy and those who are not. Those who are wise - and those who are happy - embrace and appreciate life. Those who are unhappy and unwise do not. That is all, that is the only difference.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

~ Richard Paul Evans

Never give up on the possibilities or accept what is when you can see it for what it could be.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only he who has eatenpoppies with the deadwill not lose ever againthe gentlest chord.Though the image upon the pooloften grows dim:Know and be still.Inside the Double Worldall voices becomeeternally mild.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

[Jack:] 'I was twenty-four when I met Walker. Do you know I've never lived alone? I'm forty-four years old and I've never lived alone. The first few weeks Walker was gone, I didn't know what to do with myself. I'd stay in the store until late, pick up some takeout, and just watch television until I fell asleep.'[... Melody:] 'Sounds kind of great right

~ Cynthia D'aprix Sweeney

When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319)

~ Victoria Moran

Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us?

~ Ariana Carruth

Our knees get dusty from time to time, but when they touch the ground, we must never allow the dust to convince us that our submission in that moment is the acceptance of our defeat for an entire lifetime.

~ A.j. Darkholme

When our challenge persists, returning in different forms, it may be a sign for us to accepted it as a valuable lesson.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

~ Mitch Albom

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger. It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it. This doesn't mean you can't hurry when you have to. It is possible even to hurry patiently, mindfully, moving fast because you have chosen to.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

But can I say, now that she is dead, long dead that I only half believed in her. I wanted, I needed her to revolt. I know, revolutions take vast energy like volcanic eruptions. I know. And the sick must husband their resources even as they are resourceful for their husbands. But I couldn't help wanting for her, couldn't help the feeling that she'd given in, that she had measured out with coffee spoons what it was that she might ask of life and having found it lacking, tragically, gapingly lacking, had decided none-the-less to accept her modest share. I wanted her ignoble, irresponsible, unreasonable, petty, grasping, fucking greedy for the lot of it, jostling and spitting and clawing for every grain of life.

~ Claire Messud

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

~ Cyndi Lee

But are the twin souls destined to be together? Synchronicity is at work here to bring the two back together again. How entrancing to find the same magical alchemy still at work, just as it was at the first meeting – a recognition of a deep rooted love so entrenched and so accepted, it could only have been forged in other lifetimes together. And probably that is what love at first sight is, recognition of an ancient love.

~ Chimnese Davids

Let's not hate the existence of hatred.

~ Toba Beta

So everybody who talks about homosexuals as a damnation better look in a mirror and try to heal their own selves. Who they call homosexuals do, at least, act out of their love. That’s better than the hate a whole lot of people act out of.

~ J. California Cooper

While the differences between love and hate can be blurred and difficult to decipher at times, the dichotomy of denial and acceptance are much more distinct. One is halting and aggressively rejects all truth, while the other is more passive and at peace – welcoming whatever truth is in waiting, whether fortunate or tragic.

~ Kenn Bivins

People will try to break you, hate you, ignore youBut if you accept them with love, nothing will touch you.

~ Debasish Mridha