Acceptance Quotes

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside from outside: I have drawn no lines

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

You must accept responsibility for your actions. This doesn't include reactions, interactions or transactions if you're thinkin' loophole.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.

I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

Accepting God’s acceptance of me doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying. It means I’m going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.

The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.

Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Acceptance is the act of embracing what life presents to you with a good attitude.

Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving.

Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance.

Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.

Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of all external events. That's all you need.

I don't wanna be shaped like a girl. I love being shaped like a woman, and trust me ladies, your man won't mind either.

Accepting that we have weaknesses becomes a strength.

Acceptance is the key to everything.

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

Acceptance spells death to a writer.

The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.