Acceptance Quotes - Page 11

You will think you take generous views of her; but you will never begin to know through what a strange sea of feeling she passed before she accepted you. As she stood there in front of you the other day, she plunged into it. She said 'Why not?' to something which, a few hours earlier, had been inconceivable. She turned about on a thousand gathered prejudices and traditions as on a pivot, and looked where she had never looked hitherto.

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.

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

He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man by necessity uncertain.

It is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same you all are. Don't expect anybody to be the same as you, then you will see that you are in many ways the same as everybody.

Understanding is the first step of accepting!

To be a seed in a world, is to remain safe almost unharmed living within a shell to protect you from the exterior world, what a risk it was to chose to bud and prosper into a little sprout unaware of what you will become, yet fearlessly ready to trust the process along the way.

It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.

It takes a lot of effort for an obsessive mind to accept the fact that everything is in order except itself.

we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.

He who attempts to resist the wave is swept away but he who bends before it abides.

Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no matter where they're from, have been trying to understand this world of ours.

when you obey the rules, the rules obey you

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

Is it your background, then?" Lord Franton smiled and shook his head. "That need not worry you. You're a wizard now; what you were before does not matter to me.""Yes, it does," Kim said softly. "Because part of the time you're sorry about it, and part of the time you think it makes me interesting, and part of the time you ignore it. But you never forget it.

One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay to be in LTRs (long –term relationships). Monogamous, polyamorous, Femdom, or whatever: All couples people walk around feeling a little unfulfilled. (Single people, too). Because no one gets everything they want.

In my business you measure your respect by the enemies you make.

My heart broke not only for the daughter who already was forced to become her mother's alarmingly narrow ideal, but also for the middle daughter who knew that her in mother's mind she had already failed.

Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy.

Man adapts himself to everything to the best and the worst.

Though people know the meaning of the word acceptance, people are ignorant about it. Thinking acceptance may hurt their self esteem.

Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.

Water flows because it's willing.

Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny this reality and try to wish it away, or you can accept it and not waste any energy on wanting it to be different.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction perhaps illusory that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

and to die with the Warrior's Prayer on his lips. For, 'Yes', he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life. Acceptance.

Any meaning of life derives from amiably accepting our anonymous role in the singular order of the universe. Such gracious reception of life’s turbulences stems from willingly capitulating to whatever fomented experiences life brings us without harboring a disconsolate degree of remorse or regret.

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

Acceptance is not submission it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

Accept that all of us can be hurt that all of us can-and surely will at times-fail. Other vulnerabilities like being embarrassed or risking love can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own terrified minds. Because if even one broken and limited human being could experience even one such episode of absolute forgiveness and acceptance of her own self, then imagine—just imagine!—what God, in all His eternal compassion, can forgive and accept.

If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

Why in the world have we never found what we’re really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won’t accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need.

You are unique and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

Ours must be the first age whose great goal on a nonmaterial plane is not fulfillment but adjustment.

If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was a horse. If the reality is there and you refuse to accept the name men give it, you'll only lay yourself open to double harassment.

If one is cruel to himself how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

A crucial element of the real self is its unconditional acceptance of itself.

How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.

Your self-worth and self-esteem cannot be changed by doing positive affirmations. If that were the case many people would be super confident and are not. It may appear to work for some, but only because they have already faced the hurts inside that have caused low self-worth and low self-esteem, and are ready to feel differently. Acknowledging the pain and the suffering that take place inside you, and allowing the feelings, will take time, but this new way of handling these feelings will change the way you relate to you and to the outside world.

We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.

It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there.

No matter how much you feed a wolf he will always return to the forest.

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

What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love.

Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.

The four stages of acceptance:1. This is worthless nonsense.2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.3. This is true, but quite unimportant.4. I always sai

Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking. It's akin to letting your palm open to unhand something you have been holding on to.

There is no quality of human nature so nearly royal as the ability to yield gracefully.

Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes--and she listened to her and tried to console her with all her heart and understanding--really for the time convinced that Harriet was the superior creature of the two--and that to resemble her would be more for her own welfare and happiness than all that genius or intelligence could do.It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant; but she left her with every previous resolution confirmed of being humble and discreet, and repressing imagination all the rest of her life.

Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.

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.

Self-expression has to come out pure. It has to have an environment waiting for it. It has to have a garden it can plant itself in.