Quotes on Accepting

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.

To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.

Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair.

Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

I have to ask you to resist, not to comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it.

No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.

When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.