Acceptance Quotes

Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

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

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

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.

Yielding is the way of the Tao.

The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.

Wellness within is mindfulness and acceptance of what you are, what you feel inside and how it's always changing. That process is helped by being attentive to the breath as it moves through the body.

Tapping is a powerful tool that can truly heal, allowing forgiveness, love, and acceptance into your life, particularly when used along with affirmations.

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural outstreaming.

When people are not accepting toward themselves they are often obsessed with acceptance by others.

Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.

Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.

It's not enough to be tolerant...now we're finally moving towards the idea of acceptance.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself.

We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been and all that you will be in the future.

...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.

Judging is a preemptive attack against that which you most desire - intimacy and acceptance - that is launched before you can be rejected or refused.

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it

Acceptance does not mean inaction; acceptance is actually acknowledging the present situation.

Humility is the conscious awareness and acceptance of eternity as your body.

Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.

Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.

To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

When we truly embrace acceptance, that's when our body exhales and can begin healing.