Acceptance Quotes

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

~ Tara Brach

Acceptance. We want someone to look at us, and really see us—our physical flaws, our personality quirks, our insecurities. And we want them to be okay with every square inch of who we are. We’re always afraid we might be too needy or too much work. We put all these limitations on ourselves and our relationships because we’re afraid that we’re not really loved. That we’re not really accepted. We hide little pieces of ourselves because we think that might be the one thing that finally drives away the person who’s supposed to love us.

~ Michele Bardsley

The world you once knew is no more for you.

~ Travis Luedke

Things you call wrong, describe your levels of acceptance and understanding..

~ Himmilicious

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You unlock the door to greater levels of excellence and success when you accept who you are. It is from the point of acceptance that we can create a masterful life.

~ Steve Maraboli

We're all strange in our own strange way.

~ Mark Donnelly

When you have acceptance of who you are there is no need to discuss your past.

~ Mark Donnelly

If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Love heals violence and all its sources

~ Bryant Mcgill

Why when people are on their deathbed, they finally come to terms with life?

~ Anthony Liccione

If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.

~ T. Scott Mcleod

Do you want love, or do you want control?

~ T. Scott Mcleod

What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey pal, nice crazy notion, let's go have a beer. America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamorous reasonable voice.

~ George Saunders

Is it love, or is it attachment? Do you want to love her, or do you want to control her?

~ T. Scott Mcleod

When I saw you on the stairs before, I’d forgotten how beautiful you are,’ he whispered against her skin.‘Spotty, not beautiful,’ she corrected gently, running her finger along his crooked nose. ‘Now you, you’re beautiful.’‘I even missed your inferiority complex.’ Max smiled and shifted against her.‘Not being inferior. It’s a point of fact. I’m covered in zits,’ Neve said and she didn’t know why she felt the need to share that with Max but then she was glad that she had because he was kissing each one of the angry red bumps along her forehead and chin and cheeks, even though a few of them were starting to suppurate. ‘Don’t do that, it’s completely unhygienic. Kiss my mouth instead.

~ Sarra Manning

Why hold secrets? Why harbor anything? Let me just share everything with you. Let me just talk. Let me let go of the censor that is within me ... I’m tired of trying to be someone other than who I am.

~ T. Scott Mcleod

Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed.

~ T. Scott Mcleod

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

~ Shinichi Suzuki

The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this.

~ Anthony Liccione

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Infectious smile has infected tears The laughter strikes with spears I am not dear and they are not sincere Feeling fear I must perform For when I stop the stage is gone

~ Louis Cecile

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303

~ Lionel Shriver

When you focus on someone's disability you'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally.

~ Yvonne Pierre

I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.

~ Mathias Malzieu

You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.

~ Ted Hughes

Let the water flow beneath the bridge; let men be men, that is to say, weak, vain, inconstant, unjust, false, and presumptuous; let the world be the world still; you cannot prevent it. Let every one follow his own inclination and habits; you cannot recast them, and the best course is, to let them be as they are and bear with them. Do not think it strange when you witness unreasonableness and injustice; rest in peace in the bosom of God; He sees it all more clearly than you do, and yet permits it. Be content to do quietly and gently what it becomes you to do, and let everything else be to you as though it were not.

~ François Fénelon

Acceptance means events can make it through you without resistance

~ Michael Singer

When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me.

~ Steve Maraboli

To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

~ Alain De Botton

Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear ...but because of your love.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

~ William F. Buckley Jr.

Note that acceptance is different from approval. Acceptance is simply saying, “It is so.

~ Margie Warrell

Shuki’s wisdom: Sometimes things happen, and the only choice you have is to accept it, and learn to make a life anyway.

~ M.a. Mcrae

What is the secret of your serenity?” a student asked Sophia “Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable,” she replied.

~ David W. Jones

What's more, the kaleidoscopic blend of gender-variant and gender-typical traits that characterizes gay people is exactly what enables us to make our own unique contributions to society. It's the reason that we should be valued, celebrated, and welcomed into society rather than merely being tolerated. The aim should be to foster acceptance of gay people as we are, in all our rich diversity and not to seek acceptance by shoe-horning ourselves into conformity with the straight majority.

~ Simon Levay

I know inside that there is more to life than this mortal coil. It's a very shallow minded person who thinks that someone is born and dies and that's it. I haven't gone through thirty odd years of suffering, and doing what I do, and looking at other people who are born and die with cancer, with AIDS, with whatever, and think, 'well, what was the point of that?'. There is a point to everything, and we're here to learn, and it's just a learning curve and we'll move on, and this is just a shell. It's just I've got a dodgy shell.

~ Jonny Kennedy