Quotes on Acceptance

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment, _x000D_ harmony with things as they happen.

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body.

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.

Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?

The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that's what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you see what this moment requires: what is it that is required now so that life can express itself more fully?

Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of experience in us against it. The faith that surmounts this evidence and is able to warm itself at the fire of God's love, instead of having to steal love and self-acceptance from other sources, is actually the root of holiness: It is a fatal mistake to think of holiness as a possession which we have distinct from our faith... Faith is the very highest form of our dependence on God.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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.

Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.

Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.