Acceptance Quotes

Nothing happens without God’s will, and life doesn’t always go according to plan. Man proposes, God disposes. And it is God’s will that we need to surrender to. In retrospect it usually all makes sense.

~ Kristiane Backer

When you find complete acceptance in the Father, you will no longer stress about what others believe, think or say about you.

~ Alisa Hope Wagner

Change what you can, accept what you can’t, and be smart enough to know the difference

~ Wally Lamb

We look for our perfect partners, and we wish we can be accepted the way we are. We seek unconditional love. It is all beautiful. While doing it we can always remember that we need to accept ourselves unconditionally, as much as we wish others to accept as with no conditions.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Do what you can to help people but have the wisdom to accept your limits.

~ Bryant Mcgill

What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I don’t fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

~ Louise L. Hay

When you accept fallibility within yourself you become more perfect.

~ Bryant Mcgill

When you accept that there is no success greater than inner-peace and contentment, you instantly qualify yourself for more success.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Begin accepting the gift now, and have every beautiful and good thing in life — and then share.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Accepting conflict brings you closer to knowing peace.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Blame anchors us into the past, a place we cannot change. Acceptance frees us to the future.

~ Bryant Mcgill

It takes courage to say goodbye. To stare at a thing lost and know it is gone forever. Some tears are iron forged.

~ Jay Kristoff

Would the people in her life still love her if they knew the whole truth about her? Perhaps, but would they love her the same?

~ Lacey Alexander

But looking at you was nothing like looking at those pictures. When I first saw,” he said, looking down at her chest, then up again to meet her eyes, “it hurt, almost a physical pain. Since you finished chemo, you've gotten so strong again. Sometimes I almost forget what you've been through. But seeing your scars, they reminded me of your hurt. How you've been cut apart. What you gave up.”It was important, not keeping herself back from him, putting parts of herself off limits. But it stung when he sank down to brush his lips over the two biggest scars.“But your scars are beautiful. I mean, I look at them, and I want to kiss, I want to touch, I feel this tenderness for them. You know how when you love someone, when you've been with them a long time and you know all the little lines and curves and planes of their body, how you look at little parts of them—the corner of their mouth, the back of their hand, the little crease where their earlobe meets their jaw—and you can feel like you're in love with that little piece of them? Maybe soon, I'll look at your scars like that. But right now, it's this feeling I've never had for a part of someone's body, before, because they promise me you're well. That you get to live. That we get to have a long life together.”Her love for him was swelling up in her chest, the way it did sometimes, an ache she wanted to hold on to.

~ Varian Krylov

I learned that, while rejection is the name of the game, I’m always going to be exactly what someone is looking for, eventually. Whether it is looks or personality, be it in the professional world or the dating world, what others have over me is irrelevant, because there’s always someone out there looking for an exact type of someone – a someone that I can completely fulfill. I’m not going to be everyone’s ideal, so focusing on the times I get passed over – be it the modeling industry or in real life – is a colossal waste of time.

~ Abby Rosmarin

I don’t know what I did to deserve someone as smart and beautiful as you.”You were you. And maybe that was enough.

~ Michael Haley

For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power.

~ David W. Earle

Forgive me, my sons. I've been defeated by this despicable idiot. This is as far as I go.I leave everything to you.You have my gratitude. Farewell, my sons.

~ Whitebeard

When it all comes crashing downTry to understand your meaningsNo one said it would be easyThis living, it ain't easy, ohYou were sewn togetherwith a tapestry of moleculesA billion baby galaxiesand wide open spacesAnd everything you need is hereEverything you fear is hereAnd it's holding you upIt just keeps holding you upWhen you came up from the groundFrom a million little piecesYou're a pretty human being

~ Cloud Cult

I, like you, was not depraved or defected before birth but created to be magnificent, a wonderful and freeing realization - simple but explosive.

~ David W. Earle

We can be safe and live with other defined truths exemplified by a capital “T” or we can change and with our limited time experience truth with a small “t,” seeking our own understanding, which can change with new awareness.

~ David W. Earle

And I understood why he didn’t need friends or to be accepted at our shitty racist high school, because he had his music, and that was so much better than anything we had to offer.

~ Matthew Quick

The thing is, when you’re with someone like Poppu - someone who sees straight through your battered facade and loves every bit of you, someone who makes you laugh until you pee your pants, someone who grabs you in a hug exactly when you need it - you don’t crave any kind of approval from strangers. You don’t need to “matter” in the world, because you already matter to the only person who counts.

~ Elizabeth Fama

You ask a certain question again and again, in a sincere fashion, and the answer appears. But, in my experience, at least, that answer arrives according to it's own mysterious celestial timing, and often in disguise. And it comes in a way you're not prepared for, or don't want, or can't at first, accept.

~ Roland Merullo

...you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.

~ Per Petterson

Acceptance. It sounds so gentle; you foolishly imagine you might try it. As if you could choose. You don’t choose. You plummet into acceptance, because the floor has collapsed beneath your feet.

~ Dawn Downey

Why couldn't he see the tragedy of what was unfolding? Was it because it was too painful, or was it because holding onto hope and dying was better than living if it meant you were forced to see the world for what it was?

~ Chris Dietzel

I have learned a great deal from other Witches, Wiccans, Odinists, Voodoo and Hoodou practitioners, Druids and many others who consider themselves Pagan. The one common thread is that every single person has been nonjudgmental. Isn't this what it's all about, acceptance? Are we not here to design our own spiritual path? --Icinia

~ Arin Murphy-Hiscock

It is not giving up, it is accepting. And the light will enter. Always does.

~ Kamal Ravikant

There are some things in life that just are. They are meant to be, and to fight against them is to ensure your own loss.

~ Theresa Smith

Perhaps that's a smile on Delia's face-but Delia's half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.

~ Daryl Gregory

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

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

~ C.g. Jung

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking. It's akin to letting your palm open to unhand something you have been holding on to.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

Ladies, part of loving your mate is accepting him exactly as he is!

~ Pamela Cummins

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness, the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with any new conceptions of religion; these are fought by the use of persecution and venom. Many of the current religious beliefs literally carried into practice would stampede humanity into the old jungle ideas and habits.

~ Luther Burbank

At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.

~ Sara Sheridan

He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love) would eventually be a part of himself

~ Djuna Barnes