Acceptance Quotes

Don't expect anything from anyone unless you are prepared to accept denial.

~ Mohith Agadi

The only real certainty is that if you get to live, you gotta die. Live life now.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

The funny thing about money is that you can't take it with you, so don’t try to.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Why are we afraid of the silence that ensues after our death? Wasn’t it the same silence we endured before birth? Isn’t it the same silence we revel in when we are completely immersed in the present moment? Let us not be afraid.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I had embraced you...long before i hugged you.

~ Sanober Khan

I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?

~ Dejan Stojanovic

The point is, being a Christian does not mean hating or belittling the non-Christians. Being a Muslim does not mean hating or belittling the non-Muslims. Being an Atheist does not mean hating or belittling the religious people. In a civilized society, diversity in religious orientation should be the reason for celebration, not the cause for hatred and differentiation.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Faith is about the connection of people as much as it is about God. We are called to be in community and treat others with divine love.

~ Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

If, in your attempt to follow Jesus, you exclude, condemn or discriminate against someone, you are doing it wrong.

~ Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else. We can enjoy every moment of movement, as long as where we are is as good as where we'd like to be. That's not to say that you need to be satisfied forever with where you are today. But you need to honor what you've accomplished, rather than thinking of what's left to be done (p. 159).

~ John Bingham

Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul's potential.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I am learning to accept everything about myself,even the part of me that struggles to accept everything about myself.

~ Scott Stabile

You have to see the good in yourself before expecting someone else to see the good in you. Be aware of who you are and what you can truly be.

~ Blaque Diamond

If you were to love, love not for the lust that you yearn but the rather the pain that you earn with it. Remember though that the ones who brave the pain are eternally bound in Cupid's chain. It is these chains that many of us fear. The fear of losing the freedom of choosing for self. The fear of placing the needs of our better halves before our own. The fear is understandable for history has taught us to despise and the society has given us the chance to entice. However, if you were to pause and think ever about - love - then do remember that the chain which upon acceptance binds you in amour is the same which upon rejection arrests us to an ague called lonesome depression. Few survive in love, but fewer without it.

~ Adhish Mazumder

Having a religion doesn’t make a person love or not love others. It doesn’t make a person accept or not accept others. It doesn’t make a person befriend or not befriend others.Being without a religion doesn’t make somebody do or be any of that either.No, what makes somebody love, accept, and befriend their fellow man is letting go of a need to be better than others.Nothing else.

~ Dan Pearce

Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.

~ Suzy Kassem

Seldom do we embrace a new idea, especially one of a religious nature.

~ Eli Of Kittim

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

~ Jean-Yves Leloup

I have accepted that I don't know all the things that I ought to know, but I do know things that I need to know.

~ Hope Jahren

Acceptance of ignorance (of reality) is the true knowledge path.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Your words control your life, your progress, your results, even your mental and physical health. You cannot talk like a failure and expect to be successful.

~ Germany Kent

Education is a change of mind, an acceptance, and an assimilation.

~ Debasish Mridha

To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.

~ André Brink

You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.

~ Jodi Picoult

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

There are only two ways to live your life. One as if all that matters is to have someone love and accept you. The other is as though loving and accepting another person is all that matters. Often, when you choose the second you get the first.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Every advantage is temporary.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.

~ A.j. Darkholme

If you love someone, if you think you could make them happy for the rest of your life together, then nothing should stop you. You should be prepared to take them as they are and deal with the consequences. Relationships aren't neat and clean - they're ugly and messy, and they make almost no sense except to the two people in them. If you truly love someone, you accept the circumstances, you don't hide behind them

~ Taylor Jenkins Reid

Just as I’m about to continue walking along the shoreline, the left third of the iceberg breaks off suddenly and crashes violently, like a high-rise apartment building imploding in the heart of the city. Tears roll down my face uncontrollably as I watch the two distinct halves of the iceberg drift further and further apart from each other. It’s devastating to watch something that seems so strong and unbreakable crumble in an instant. Even more devastating is the feeling that there’s nothing I can do about it.

~ Shannon Mullen

I guess love distorts our perception of reality, and it’s even harder to recognize the truth when it’s buried underneath layers of what we imagine relationships should be like.

~ Shannon Mullen

Sometimes you have to fight for the past and sometimes you have to let go.

~ Shannon Mullen

Sometimes our heroes let us down.

~ Shannon Mullen

When we respond to our pain and suffering with love, understanding, and acceptance—for ourselves, as well as others— over time, we can let go of our anger, even when we’ve been hurt to the core. But that doesn’t mean we ever forget.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Respect everyone who crosses your path, even if you feel they don't deserve it.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Be vulnerable! It is not someone else’s responsibility to break down your walls to get to you. It is your responsibility to let them in. This is crucial. Be more vulnerable with people in your life today. Know that being vulnerable is not a weakness – vulnerability means you are strong and secure enough within yourself to walk outside without your armor on.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

~ Albert Camus