Acceptance Quotes

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness.

To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself.

The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

Make a virtue of necessity.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.

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

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.

Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.

Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?

I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.

Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.

We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.

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.

Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand.

Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.

I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.

The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.

Life has its rhythm and we have ours. They're designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

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