Acceptance Quotes

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

~ Sarah Dessen

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.

~ Deepak Chopra

You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!

~ Chuck Palahniuk

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

~ Stephen Levine

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.

~ Fred Rogers

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

~ Valery Satterwhite

Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

~ Paulo Coelho

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

~ Hanif Kureishi

Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender

~ Eckhart Tolle

But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with think, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't. Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount of experience or insight is going to rectify our deficiencies, our self-regard, or our cupidity. We have to learn that our desires do not find any real echo in the world. We have to accept that the people we love do not love us, or not in the way we hope. We have to accept betrayal and disloyalty, and, hardest of all, that someone is finer than we are in character or intelligence.

~ Sándor Márai

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

~ Paulo Coelho

To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside reality loses meaning. The social reality is a fiction, a beautiful drama; you can participate in it, but then you don’t take it seriously. It is just a role to be played; play it as beautifully, as efficiently, as possible. But don’t take it seriously, it has nothing of the ultimate in it.

~ Osho

The best thing about coming out is, it's totally liberating. You feel like you've made this incredible discovery about yourself and you want to share it and be open and honest and not spend all your time wondering how is this person going to react, or should I be careful around this person, or what will the neighbors say? And it's more. It's about getting past the question of what's wrong with me, to knowing there's nothing wrong, that you were born this way. You're a normal person and a beautiful person and you should be proud of who you are. You deserve to live with dignity and show people your pride.

~ Julie Anne Peters

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

~ Gertrude Stein

It wasn’t that everything was going my way, but I began to believe that the way it was going was perfect. I accepted that where I was in life, was exactly where I was supposed to be.

~ The Hippie

The image I'd had of myself as a child was someone I'd never be, and it was only recently that I realized it was okay to be who I was. - Cat

~ Jeaniene Frost

You're insane!I won't argue that point.

~ Ray Bradbury

The MistakeWith the mistake your life goes in reverse.Now you can see exactly what you didWrong yesterday and wrong the day beforeAnd each mistake leads back to something worseAnd every nuance of your hypocrisyTowards yourself, and every excuseStands solidly on the perspective linesAnd there is perfect visibility.What an enlightenment. The colonnadeRolls past on either side. You needn't move.The statues of your errors brush your sleeve.You watch the tale turn back — and you're dismayed.And this dismay at this, this big mistakeIs made worse by the sight of all those whoKnew all along where these mistakes would lead — Those frozen friends who watched the crisis

~ James Fenton

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind, it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

~ Helen Keller

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

~ Stephen King

How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.

~ Gautama Buddha

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

~ Robert E. Lee

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

~ E.m. Forster

Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better, it just means that my way of living life on life’s terms improves.

~ Sharon E. Rainey

Life has its rhythm ad we have ours. They’re designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity. (285)

~ Victoria Moran

No matter what happens, you will always be Pack. Because you have that loyalty and restraint. Not human, not whatever, but Kate. Unique and different, but not separate.

~ Ilona Andrews

It's a persons ego that leads them away. So I should say, let your mind be open to those things that affects your ego. Learn how to accept your mistakes and learn how to understand mistakes of others.

~ Jayson Engay

That's how you should be. Accept your burden and carry it, with joy.

~ John Ajvide Lindqvist

A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree

~ Thomas Merton

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands,How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any morethan he.

~ Walt Whitman

I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!

~ Harvey Fierstein

I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.

~ Christine Feehan

I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for what I and they contribute.

~ Gail Blanke

Regret swallows broken men whole. Acceptance builds them anew.

~ Sarah Noffke

There will always be people who will accept you for what you are!

~ Sakura Tsukuba

Observe the rhythm of passers-by on the street, at work, everywhere. Summon loving acceptance and let their tempos move you emotionally and corporeally. Try to assimilate new ideas by trying out the rhythms of those you encounter.

~ Alexandra Katehakis

Dad they think she has Down Syndrome. He smiled genuinely as his eyes welled up with tears. That's okay. We love her.

~ Kelle Hampton