Acceptance Quotes

One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay to be in LTRs (long –term relationships). Monogamous, polyamorous, Femdom, or whatever: All couples people walk around feeling a little unfulfilled. (Single people, too). Because no one gets everything they want.

~ Dan Savage

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.

~ Louise Erdrich

Some days we lose all at once and somedays we get all back at once. But either way,Accept it.

~ Diarian Hersi

Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them.

~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

That empty sick feeling came over me again. In a big school it was easy to fade into the background, but I didn’t know if that would be possible here. I tried not to think about it anymore.

~ Dana Michelle Burnett

What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

You need to accept your yesterday, so u can be happy on your today, risk and failures will always be there, and so is success.

~ Candy Bustillo

Mary watched the sunset from her carriage window, realizing that such beauty could never last. Life was a golden glory that faded in the wink of an eye. Life was a village fair that only lasted for a single day. As the carriage rattled along, rocking her like a babe in arms, Mary felt very old and wise. She found that she didn't mind being taken back to the castle, to a caring captivity that was filled with comforts and kindness. And she also found that she couldn't keep her eyes open.

~ Margaret George

When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.

~ Dave Matthes

Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes. However precipitous the future might seem, he learned from the game of kemari that the ball must always come down. There was no call for consternation. Grief and rage, along with other outbursts of passion, were mistakes easily committed by a mind lacking in refinement. And the Count was certainly not a man who lacked refinement.Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura’s version of political theory.

~ Yukio Mishima

A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the essence and uniqueness of others, when we subscribe to that religious philosophy of life that insists that God has made each man and woman an individual sacred personality endowed with a specific temperament, created with differing needs, hungers, dreams. This is a variegated, pluralistic world where no two stars are the same and every snowflake has its own distinctive pattern. God apparently did not want a regimented world of sameness. That is why creation is so manifold. So it is with us human beings. Some are born dynamic and restless; others placid and contemplative…One man’s temperament is full throated with laughter; another’s tinkles with the sad chimes of gentle melancholy. Our physiques are different, and that simple difference oftentimes drives us into conflicting fulfillment of our natures, to action or to thought, to passion or to denial, to conquest or to submission. There is here no fatalism of endowment. We can change and prune and shape the hedges of our being, but we must rebel against the sharp shears being wielded by other hands, cutting off the living branches of our spirits in order to make our personalities adornments for their dwellings.

~ Joshua Loth Liebman

Allow yourself to celebrate your sense of freedom , your capacity to make a choice and your strength in facing the truth. Not everyone has the courage to do so, even if it hurts……Knowing is KEY to acceptance.

~ Abby Espiritu

In the West, they will either accept or reject. In the East, they will always accept also provide guidance and patience.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Nowadays 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

~ Emma Donoghue

Too late, too late, your love gave me life. Here am I the creature you made through your loving; by your passion you created the thing that I am. Who are you to deny me the right to love? But for you I need never have known existence.

~ Radclyffe Hall

Remember this as long as you live: Whenever you meet up with anyone who is trying to cause trouble between people, anyone who tries to tell you that a man can't be a good American because he's a Catholic, or a Jew, a Protestant, or whatever, you can be pretty sure he's a rotten American himself. Not only a rotten American, but a rotten human being. Don't ever forget that.

~ Superman

By nature, we want to be liked. We want to be accepted. But, most of the time, we allow our worth to be decided by the people on the sidelines. By people that see snapshots of our life but have no clue what the whole picture looks like.

~ Liz Newman

One of the most difficult things to remember is to remember to remember. We forget that we live in a body with senses and feelings and thoughts and emotions and ideas. We get caught up in rumination and fantasy, isolating us from the world of colors, shapes, sounds, smells, tastes, and sensations constantly bombarding our input sensors. To stop and pay attention to the moment is one way of snapping out of these mindscapes, and is a definition of meditation. This awareness is a process of deepening self-acceptance. Whatever it observes, it embraces. There is nothing unworthy of acceptance.

~ Stephen Batchelor

We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope.

~ Martin Luther King

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself and not by borrowing.

~ Michel De Montaigne

You can succeed if nobody else believes it but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

~ William J. H. Boetcker

Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform.

~ Susan B. Anthony

Everybody wants to do something to help but nobody wants to be first.

~ Pearl Bailey

It is not easy to be a pioneer-but oh it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment even the worst moment for all the riches in the world.

~ Elizabeth Blackwell

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

~ Stewart E. White

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

~ Kay Boyle

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

~ Hillary Rodham Clinton

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.

~ William Hazlitt

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

~ Beverly Sills

The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it and if the world scoff let it scoff-if it sneer let it sneer.

~ Lucy Stone

When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

~ Elizabeth Taylor

Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists let alone its desirability until the reactions of grown-ups inform them.

~ Leontine Young

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.

~ Noël Coward

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men whatever they say about you good or bad you are not because of it another man for as you are you are.

~ Thomas À Kempis

In my business you measure your respect by the enemies you make.

~ Theo E. Colborn

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

~ Emily Dickinson

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

~ Ethel Barrett

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

~ Mark Twain

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken made verbal and shared even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

~ Audre Lorde