Acceptance Quotes

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

~ Louise Bourgeois

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations it shatters them.

~ Arlene Croce

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

~ Sarah Josepha Hale

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchant-ments of later years the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial the alienation from the sources of our strength.

~ Rachel Carson

You are unique and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

~ Martha Graham

The thing that makes you exceptional if you are at all is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

~ Lorraine Hansbury

Everybody is talented original and has something important to say.

~ Brenda Ueland

I didn't belong as a kid and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset then my early life would have been much easier.

~ Bette Midler

Genius is expansive irresistible and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you no cords can confine it.

~ Gail Hamilton

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time you are incomparable.

~ Brenda Ueland

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight seeing them as they are without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius.

~ Maude Adams

Children see things very well sometimes-and idealists even better.

~ Lorraine Hansbury

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

~ Rosa Luxemburg

The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.

~ Denise Shekerjian

Art is the signature of civilizations.

~ Beverly Sills

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do-can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.

~ Barbara Sher

If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.

~ Johann Von Goethe

Love your self's self where it lives.

~ Anne Sexton

Be content with what you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor long for it.

~ Martial

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

~ Erasmus

Who I am is the best I can be.

~ Leontyne Price

Learn what you are and be such.

~ Pindar

What thou art that thou art.

~ Thomas À Kempis

I is who I is.

~ Tom Peterson

People remain what they are even when their faces fall to pieces.

~ Bertolt Brecht

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

~ Alex Haley

The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

~ Cesare Pavese

I seldom think about my limitations and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague like a breeze among flowers.

~ Helen Keller

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

~ Coco Chanel

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself in spite of being unacceptable.

~ Paul Tillich

Contentment and indeed usefulness comes as the infallible result of great acceptances great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.

~ David Grayson

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

~ Sigmund Freud

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

~ Pearl Bailey

There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely.

~ Ugo Betti

I'm not OK you're not OK-and that's OK.

~ William Sloane Coffin

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.

~ Shakti Gawain

All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not to do something they cannot do.

~ David Grayson

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

~ Ingrid Bergman

She soothed and solaced and celebrated destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.

~ Martha Bacon

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

~ André Gide