Quotes on Acceptance

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.

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

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.

The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things. [from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our silence in the presence of His infinitely rich silence, our joy in the bosom of the serene darkness in which His light holds us absorbed, it is all this that praises Him.

Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

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

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.