Acceptance Quotes

The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

To increase your level of self acceptance, think of your unique talents and abilities.

In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what's happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.

The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.

When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation--not resistance, not warfare, not fights.

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.

I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.

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.

See If You Can Give Yourself Gifts That May Be True Blessings, Such As Self-Acceptance

...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.

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

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

Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control.

No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.

Patience means self-suffering.

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.

Whatever is... is best.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Things past redress are now with me past care

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment

I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!.

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.

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

Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.