Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing and when I accepted that and found the way to do it then I was able to write.
~ Robert B. Parker
When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
~ Anaïs Nin
When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You being yourself help others be themselves.
~ Jane Roberts
So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forgetting I was strong.
~ Vita Sackville-West
Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery because we have ... the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality ... which from time to time reveals itself to be vain and illusory.
~ Luigi Pirandello
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
~ William James
It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
~ Billy Joel
Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.
~ Mary S. Almanac
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.
~ Florida Scott-Maxwell
Each of us has a day ... when he has to accept finally the fact that he is a man.
~ Jean Anouilh
Nature never repeats herself and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.
~ Freya Stark
If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.
~ Fay Weldon
Accept your humanness as well as your divinity totally and without reserve.
~ Emmanuel
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
~ Ellen Goodman
Why can a man not act himself be himself and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness however small we may be.
~ Maria Mitchell
Until you make peace with who you are you'll never be content with what you have.
~ Doris Mortman
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
~ Maxwell Maltz
It is a sign of strength not of weakness to admit that you don't know all the answers.
~ John P. Loughrane
The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
~ Bernie S. Siegel
Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be.
Ultimately love is self approval.
~ Sondra Ray
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
~ Hugh Prather
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
~ Malcolm Forbes
If I am not for myself who is for me? And if I am only for myself what am I? And if not now when?
~ Hillel
Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman not the grief of a child ...
~ Kara Digiovanna
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
~ Susan Sontag
Your problem is you're ... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
~ Ram Dass
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
~ Stuart Chase
Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
~ Walter Cronkite
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
~ Jackie Robinson
We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.
~ Michael Bloomberg
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
~ Henry Rollins
The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.
~ Robert Dallek
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
~ Brian Tracy
In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Simon Van Booy
'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.
~ George Takei
Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.
~ Ceelo Green
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
