Quotes on Acceptance

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you get it over with, the sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the paradox that one can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.

Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

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 of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.