Acceptance Quotes

Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely, the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.

~ Stacey Charter

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

~ Joseph Conrad

I accept my body and its defects.I accept my characterand its weaknesses.I love myself as a perfect partof a perfect Whole.

~ Human Angels

we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

the hardest thing in life is to accept the facts that are hard to accept and to accept the things you can't accept.

~ Yassi Tan

Though people know the meaning of the word acceptance, people are ignorant about it. Thinking acceptance may hurt their self esteem.

~ Pushkar Saraf

It seems impossible to wheedle his way out of his impending death. No one has before him. But just as a young person feels invincible, he cannot bring himself to accept the looming train as he stands upon the tracks feeling the deep rumbling of the behemoth barreling straight toward him.

~ M. Starks

Acceptance is a gift that helps you to skip forward and live in the present. Everyone needs a chance to be fulfilled with acceptance which is the impetus to heal old wounds. Sometimes you meet someone and you can skip forward because of the greeting, the acceptance, and the goodbye. Say hello to a stranger. They will greet you with a smile almost every time.

~ Brian Michael Good

i used ti think poorly of our difference, that i wanted to be with you every minute of every day, you dont se things the way i do when it comes to love, and that friction may be the reason i love you all the more.

~ Andrew Kadziolka

The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence.

~ Debasish Mridha

Being angry, resentful, or saddened by rejection can suck the sweetness out of acceptance.

~ Charles F. Glassman

And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.

~ Dave Pelzer

Our unity will always be a greater force with mixed ideals than if we demand that others change for us, to what we believe.

~ A.j. Darkholme

when you obey the rules, the rules obey you

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you, None has understood you, but I understand you, None has done justice to you, you have not done justice to yourself, None but has found you imperfect, I only find no imperfection in you, None but would subordinate you, I only am he who will never consent to subordinate you, I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what waits intrinsically in yourself.

~ Walt Whitman

AcceptanceThere are things I missthat I shouldn't,and those I don'tthat I should.Sometimes we wantwhat we couldn't—sometimes we lovewho we could.

~ Lang Leav

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Everything changes. The leaves, the weather, the colour of your hair, the texture of your skin. The feelings you have today - whether they kill you or enthrall you - won’t be the same tomorrow, so let go. Celebrate. Enjoy. Nothing lasts, except your decision to celebrate everything, everyone, for the beauty that is there within each moment, each smile, each impermanent flicker of infinity.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

I have breathed my way through so many people I felt wronged by; through so many situations I couldn't change. Sometimes while doing this I have breathed in acceptance and breathed out love. Sometimes I've breathed in gratitude and out forgiveness. Sometimes I haven't been able to muster anything beyond the breath itself, my mind forced blank with nothing but the desire to be free of sorrow and rage.

~ Cheryl Strayed

Stark truth, is seldom met with open arms.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

…We had spiritually marked ourselves. This marking began…when the counterculture of political correctness began, and the assault on Christian values and traditions began. At first it seemed so ridiculous that it was harmless, kind of like a disease to which we were all immune. Soon, however, it was recolored to equal compassion, fairness, acceptance, tolerance, and equality. From there it evolved into a power with the ability to take any truth and repaint it as a lie, to take any lie and relabel it as truth.

~ John Pontius

Losing Foxen was bad. It would leave her blind and lonely in the dark. Being trapped beneath the pipes and choking out her life was awful too. But neither of those things were wrong.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes--and she listened to her and tried to console her with all her heart and understanding--really for the time convinced that Harriet was the superior creature of the two--and that to resemble her would be more for her own welfare and happiness than all that genius or intelligence could do.It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant; but she left her with every previous resolution confirmed of being humble and discreet, and repressing imagination all the rest of her life.

~ Jane Austen

Stop fishing for deep sea perch in a pond, because when you reel in gold fish, you’ll only end up disappointed. In time the thrill of catching will wear off, and then you’ll realise it’s not the deep sea dwelling creature you were truly after.See when your own depths match that of the ocean, you will eventually need to accept that no pond can fill you.

~ Nicole Bonomi

How often do we truly feel accepted?Are we aware of the collateral effects inflicted when we reject someone or something? How do we move on from a state of constant rejection?How do we gratefully accept rejection?With acceptance, we grow not in a constant state of rejection.

~ Angelica Hopes

And like an epiphany just landed on my shoulder, everything feels right. A calming acceptance settles over me, and I know, that even through the twists and uncertainty of time, it's okay if my heart sometimes leads me.

~ P.k. Hrezo

Jesus’ command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in.

~ Kester Brewin

Without the possibility of making mistakes, we wouldn't need to bother about making a decision.

~ Daniel Englisch

For years I’ve been trying to turn myself into someone I’m not. Because that’s what Court wanted. But you get me. I can be the man I want to be with you—the man I’m meant to be. You needed me to be that man. I’m a cop. Always have been, always will be.

~ Julie Miller

And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation some fact of my life unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.

~ Alcoholics Anonymous

What made her most beautiful, was the way she quietly touched those around her unknowingly changing the lives of the many, she smiled at. She didn't want praise; approval or admiration, she just wanted all of whom she loved to be the most authentic side of themselves & openly living to the means of their hearts & truth.

~ Nikki Rowe

For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one's dreams.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Accept what it, forget what was.

~ Sue Fitzmaurice

I must be out of my mind if I loved you in spite of everything you've done, and anyone else would condemn you for it, but I can't condemn you at all. In my own troubled mind, I loved you for it.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Karma does never return to punish. Its role is to assist with solving what has been left uncompleted. It always returns to you, when you are strong enough to look at it. You never are asked to deal with more than you can handle. So relax and accept what is being offered to you. Accept it as a gift of love.

~ Raphael Zernoff

If {Death} comes for you?” he said. “Would you be so sanguine then?” She laughed and the pensiveness was gone. “No indeed. I will curse the stars and go down fighting. But it will still have been a wonderful thing, to cross the mist.

~ Kij Johnson

Acceptance is the letter sealed within the envelope of inner peace. - Charmainism

~ Charmaine Smith Ladd

The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Accept me for who I am.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you come up a bit short on excellence, you still win. When you strive for perfect, you’re just never quite good enough.

~ Dawn Gluskin