Quotes on Acceptance

I can never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the way through I cannot understand.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

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.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Acceptance spells death to a writer.

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.

Some of the qualities of #‎ God must _x000D_ be merged into us before our _x000D_ #‎ prayers can be fit for His _x000D_ acceptance.

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

It doesn't matter how old you are, there is a little child within who needs love and acceptance.

Those who love others _x000D_ grandly are those who love themselves grandly. Those who have a high _x000D_ toleration and acceptance of others are those who have a high _x000D_ toleration and acceptance of themselves. You cannot show another a part _x000D_ of you that you cannot show yourself. Therefore, begin where all _x000D_ growth, where all evolution, where all love must begin; with the person _x000D_ in the mirror.