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We have laws about human rights in place for a reason and even if those laws are so often not enforced BY the law, these laws teach us our rights as human beings. I was shocked when I first discovered them, but at the same time I found them empowering; especially the ones about emotional abuse and neglect. Always remember that we are healing from the damage and that before the damage can be overcome, it has to be acknowledged.Acceptance in the context of accepting what happened is not the same thing as acceptance of the person who did it. Accepting the way a person “is” does not apply when abuse or mistreatment is involved. There is a big difference in accepting someone’s “faults”, verses accepting abusive treatment.
— Darlene Ouimet
Sometimes you just gotta accept that hope is gone.
— Shannon  Mullen, See What Flowers
Alice would choose to love herself, different and extraordinary, every day of the week.
— Tahereh Mafi, Furthermore
You relinquish your power when you blame others for situations in your life. The blame does not change the situation and only keeps you in a victim mentality. Accept that the situation occurred and find a way to transcend it and you will reclaim your power and become the victor.
— Nanette Mathews
When you realize your life isn't heading in the direction you wish, rather than wasting time complaining about the situation, just focus on the direction you wish to proceed with determination.
— Nanette Mathews
He bit his lip, struggling to make words out of the war waging itself in his chest."I don't know what this makes me," he managed at last.Hook laughed, not unkindly. "It makes you whatever you want it to make you.
— Austin Chant, Peter Darling
In recent decades we have emphasized the value of teaching people 'tolerance.' Tolerance is not only inadequate, it is a negative concept which only alienates society further. Learning to tolerate absolves people of the responsibility of learning to understand different people, accept and appreciate their differences, and progress towards respecting them for who and what they are. It is only when we build acceptance between people that we will rid ourselves of the scourge of prejudice and liberate ourselves from violence.
— Arun Gandhi, Legacy of Love: My Education in the Path of Nonviolence
Death is just another path to take, as real as morning.
— Na'ama Yehuda, Emilia
Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning.
— Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
Take delight on a woman’s pubic hair for its a signature of maturity and a secretive covenant . . . the hair signifies potent sexual energy and strength hold but also signifies virility of the animalistic tendencies and royal power . . . A woman who rejects narcissism of complete vaginal hair removal gives a signature of strength, virtuously liberated, body acceptance, and more womanhood.
— John Shelton Jones, Awakening Kings and Princes Volume I: Sacred Knowledge to Nourish the Mentality, Support Spiritual Growth, Learning the Light, and Progressing to Become a Master Lover While Embracing Desire
Acceptance brings calmness with it.
— If I Wake
Acceptance can bring the greatest of joys and the worst of sorrows
— Chuck Bridges
He was tiredof being calleda fag and teasedfor his sexualityby one of the guards,so he tried to hanghimself, twiceThe kid got a littlecloser the secondtime, but I won’t bearound to see athird
— Phil Volatile, Crushed Black Velvet
No man can be everything. A successful long-distance cyclist can't be a bodybuilder. Though there are exceptions, dedicating one's time to becoming exceptional at one thing usually means not being exceptional at a whole lot of other things.Since no man can be everything, one of the best gifts to give is acceptance-'You don't have to be anything other than what you are.
— Gary Thomas, Cherish: The One Word That Changes Everything for Your Marriage
The second hugely seductive move is to signal that we view the other person with a mixture of tenderness and realism. It’s often imagined that it’ll be seductive to convey an air of adoration, to hint that the other strikes us as exceptionally attractive or accomplished. But surprisingly, it is deeply worrying to be obviously adored, because everyone, from the inside, knows very well that they don’t deserve intense acclaim, are often disappointing and sometimes quite simply pitiful.So seduction involves suggesting both that one likes the other person a lot – and yet can see their frailty quite clearly, that one cope with it and forgive it with gentle indulgence. One might, towards the end of the evening drop in a small warm tease that alludes to our understanding of some less than perfect side of them: ‘I suppose you stayed under the duvet feeling a bit sorry for yourself after that?’ we might ask, with a benign smile.Such a gesture implies that we like another person not under a mistaken notion that they are flawless but with a full and unfrightened appreciation of their frailties. That ends up being powerfully seductive because it is, first and foremost, reassuring. It suggests the ideal way that we would like someone to view us within the testing conditions of a real relationship. We crave not admiration, but to be properly known and yet still liked and forgiven.
— Alain de Botton
If you allow yourself to experience the present moment, you will discover that it does not get better than this Paradise is here and now, waiting for you to arrive, to accept, to surrender, and to enjoy.
— Victor Shamas, The Way of Play: Reclaiming Divine Fun & Celebration
Lady Vennaway is a horrible, horrible woman, is she not, Cookie?'Cook hesitated. "Everyone has their own story, even those we find the hardest. Best to accept things the way they are and count your blessings.
— Tracy Rees, Amy Snow
To Acknowledge Demonstrates Acceptance
— Sunday Adelaja
To reciprocate God’s love is a sign of being a recipient
— Sunday Adelaja
We really love someone when we miss even the things we don't like of them.
— Luigina Sgarro
I find myself making excuses for this kind of bullying behavior. Not everyone has been to college, learned trans 101, studied queer theory... But this is unfair to myself and other trans people. I've come to realize that understanding me isn't a matter of being an intellectual. Likewise, one doesn't have to be a radical to respect my feelings. Decent people consider how their comments affect others.
— Elliot Deline
What you think about me says more about you than it does about me.
— Clinton Kelly, I Hate Everyone, Except You
He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings, he couldn't reach anyways. In the end though what he could give her was better than magic wands and magic frogs and magic lamps. Better and more magical. What he gave her was moral support and unconditional love. He promised to be there for her always, even times when the sky proved too vast and the night was dark because she couldn't kindle all the stars. He would light her way instead, he promised. He would be her Polaris, her celestial navigator, her astral guide. And whenever she cam back to Earth, Grumwald promised, he would be there, waiting.
— Laurie Frankel, This is How It Always Is
He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings, he couldn't reach anyways. In the end though what he could give her was better than magic wands and magic frogs and magic lamps. Better and more magical. What he gave her was moral support and unconditional love. He promised to be there for her always, even times when the sky proved too vast and the night was dark because she couldn't kindle all the stars. He would light her way instead, he promised. He would be her Polaris, her celestial navigator, her astral guide. And whenever she came back to Earth, Grumwald promised, he would be there, waiting
— Laurie Frankel, This is How It Always Is
It was hard to accept, but when the heart-shed of a faded sparkle was tallied, a dim fullness came over me. Maybe some things are just meant to be cherished the way they are: Unfinished, left unturned, wondering what could be and could have been.
— Kevin Focke, Seasons of Love
See it for what it is and own it, rather than rethink it so you don't have to deal with the trauma of the abuse. This is the only way to move on--through acceptance.
— Shannon L. Alder
Many talk about flowing against the wind, but its only fools, who goes against the wind. The wise one’s, simply adjust themselves with the flow of the wind.
— Roshan Sharma
The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.
— Sebastian Barry
Be not virtuous beyond your powers! And seek nothing from yourselves opposed to probability!...Shy, ashamed, awkward, like the tiger whose spring hath failed—thus, ye higher men, have I often seen you slink aside. A cast which ye made had failed...The higher its type, always the seldomer doth a thing succeed. Ye higher men here, have ye not all—been failures?Be of good cheer; what doth it matter? How much is still possible! Learn to laugh at yourselves, as ye ought to laugh!What wonder even that ye have failed and only half-succeeded, ye half-shattered ones! Doth not—man's future strive and struggle in you?Man's furthest, profoundest, star-highest issues, his prodigious powers—do not all these foam through one another in your vessel?What wonder that many a vessel shattereth! Learn to laugh at yourselves, as ye ought to laugh! Ye higher men, Oh, how much is still possible!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Enjoy things for what they are, when they are, in the moment.
— Akiroq Brost
We are never through with the requirement for acceptance. This isn't a curse limited to the inadequate and the weak. Insecurity may even be a peculiar sign of well-being. It means we haven't allowed ourselves to take other people for granted, that we remain realistic enough to see that things could genuinely turn out badly and that we are invested enough to care.
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love
We all encounter things that we can't perhaps change and that's OK because surely there are many other things that we can.
— Akiroq Brost
Don’t just to avoid criticism. If you do nothing, you will be nothing. If you do only the parts you really love, you will also be nothing. It takes what it takes. It takes all of it. Own it, accept it, embrace it and do it. Want all of what you want!
— Akiroq Brost
I have learned that the first step to letting go is to accept the facts.
— Abeer Allan
End the eternal battle of beliefs once and for all. If you are a believer, love your fellow non-believer for all the good things he or she has to offer. And if you are an atheist, then love your fellow believer for all the positivity he or she possesses.
— Abhijit Naskar
My truth is mine alone; as yours is yours. For this reason, I hear and see you free of judgement, fear, anger, and resentment. This is my promise to you. This is my gift to me.
— E. Patricia Conner
I used to think the opposite of control was chaos. But it's not. The opposite of control is surrender.
— Erin Loechner, Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path
So she steeled herself. “I have never told anyone this story. No one in the world knows it. But it's mine,” she said, blinking past the burning in her eyes, “and it's time for me to tell it.”Rowan leaned back on the rock, bracing his palms behind him.“Once upon a time,” she said to him, to the world, to herself, “in a land long since burned to ash, there lived a young princess who loved her kingdom . . . very much.”And then she told him of the princess whose heart had burned with wildfire, of the mighty kingdom in the north, of its downfall and of the sacrifice of Lady Marion.
— Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
AUNT SHADIE:I see you - and don't worry, you're not white.ROSE:I'm pretty sure I'm white. I'm English.AUNT SHADIE:White is blindness - it has nothing to do with the colour of your skin.
— Marie Clements, The Unnatural and Accidental Women
Lovers moon and wishing stars are too busy for the likes of us.
— Jake. H. Khiangte
I believe that our ability to worship God, to reaffirm our covenants and receive the healing power of the Holy Ghost, to receive the instruction we need in order to make personal progress - all of these things are greatly affected by how secure and safe we feel in our Church environment during the three-hour block of time on Sundays. If we have to spend our energy dealing with feelings that we are not accepted, being concerned about our appearance, or worrying that what we do or say will be judged harshly, in other words that the fellowship of our ward members is anything but "fixed, immovable, and unchangeable", we certainly won't be able to make the kind of progress we could make otherwise.
— Virginia H. Pearce, A Heart Like His: Making Space for God's Love in Your Life
If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
— John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings
Sometimes you need to let people do things for you, accept the gifts they have to offer, graciously accept it. It is a gift, Bridget, not a debt to be repaid.
— Catherine DePasquale, Vocation
Never change yourself just because others don't accept you, the one who's destined for you will accept you the way you're; not that he doesn't find flaws, but it matters no more for he sees only the spark & magic in your eyes, making you feel special for the rest of your life!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Endings bring new beginnings. Love has many truths. And knights come in all colours.
— Dianna Hardy, Summer's End
I would much rather lose people than compromise my beliefs & values to please them.
— Trevor Driggers
I took a breath and watched as he leaned down over my exposed, lumpy belly. Very lightly, he kissed it. He kissed the spot beneath my ribs and all the way down to my navel. He kissed across my lower stomach, that wretched expanse where the stretch marks raked across my skin, then up and down my sides. Harry kissed every inch of my horrible flesh with a tenderness so great and loving, and all the while, my eyes stayed clenched tight. 'I am loved,' a voice inside me declared.
— Kelsey Miller, Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life
Being authentic begins with unconditional self acceptance - imperfections and all.
— Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy
On the way out, I hug Mum, holding her close. 'Thank you,' I whisper. 'For dinner - and for everything.'Mum smiles and strokes my cheek. 'There's nothing to thank me for.
— Liz Kessler, Read Me Like a Book
As I get older I find it more and more easy to watch a pot until it boils.
— Clifford Cohen
When its the right time; it will happen - stop rushing! In my believes; this is the only idea to gather "tolerance" and ultimately it can lead to the final "P" of peace, that is PATIENCE!
— Hira Shahid Kazim
Celebrating love, wherever it is found" (Trevor Dennis). I'm using this sermon title as the essence of my novel
— Trevor Dennis
Every time you look at me, you'll remember that I'm half his.""No." His hand came to the side of her face, his thumb wiping her tears. "You're all mine." His voice was deep and shaken. "Every hair on your head. Every part of you was made to be loved by me.
— Lisa Kleypas, Marrying Winterborne
...here on Coney Island, we learn to take each other as we are.
— H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet
However difficult death is for us to accept, we must... how would we learn to appreciate each moment if it were not precious? If life were forever?
— Michelle Harrison, One Wish
If everyone just accepted you the way you are, then, probably, you'd still be the way you were. So for anyone who didn't accept you at one point, just give 'em a smile in your heart and say, "Thank You"!
— Ufuoma Apoki
It doesn't matter if the group is a church or a gang or a sewing circle or masculinity itself, asking members to dislike, disown, or distance themselves from another group of people as a condition of 'belonging' is always about control and power. I think we have to question the intentions of any group that insists on disdain toward other people as a membership requirement. It may be disguised as belonging, but real belonging doesn't necessitate disdain.
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Resist nothing, allow everything, and surrender that which persists.
— Maximus Freeman
I'll always be there for you.I promise to protect and nurture you.Hopefully one day soon, true Autism acceptance will besomething that just is.
— Tina J. Richardson
With the constant pile of past experiences having a toll, most people get too scared to see beauty in themselves. A very honest compliment and they try inevitably to cook up conspiracy theories. Although there are ulterior motives (to the compliments) most of the time, look past it, accept, and appreciate your magic.
— Ufuoma Apoki
I am giving you permission to tell the truth about where you are in your process of dismantling your fucked-up schemas. I am not pressuring you to dismantle anything. I am saying let’s be here together, undismantled, and just accept that this is where we are. Let’s love each other right where we are, even as we compare ourselves to one another. I am saying, yes, baby, I know it’s hard.
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Rather than trying to control what can never be controlled, we can find a sense of security in being able to meet what is actually happening. This is allowing for the mystery of things: not judging but rather cultivating a balance of mind that can receive what is happening, whatever it is. This acceptance is the source of our safety and confidence.When we feel unhappiness or pain, it is not a sign that things have gone terribly wrong or that we have done something wrong by not being able to control the circumstances. Pain and pleasure are constantly coming and going, and yet we can be happy. When we allow for the mystery , sometimes we can discover that right in the heart of a very difficult time, right in the midst of a painful situation, there is freedom. In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go. As we begin to understand this, we move from a mode of struggling to control what comes into our lives into a mode of simply wishing to truly connect with what is. This is a radical shift in worldview.
— Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
Have you ever worried about something so much that it becomes debilitating? But when you finally accept there’s nothing you can do, when your choices are taken away, fear dissolves and you can finally relax…and perhaps even enjoy?
— Brownell Landrum, A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
Changing one's personality is as simple as stopping the earth's rotation
—  changing another's is even harder.
Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort
— Manoj Arora, Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always
Acceptance is a thing... look into it.If it is something in you, about you, done by you... and you aren't happy with it... you don't have to accept it. You have the power to affect change.If it something in someone else, about someone else, done by someone else... and it doesn't directly effect you in a negative way (actual effect, not perceived, mind you) ... you can rally against it, or accept it. While you may have the power in someway to force change on others... acceptance is also totally a real thing... seriously. Look into it.Don't like what others think, or feel, or do with their lives? Neat.Do those things have a direct negative impact on you?If yes, then communicate (in whatever means are situationally appropriate) and seek a positive resolution.If no, then do as I tell my eight and ten year old children... ignore them.You... no matter your age, gender, sexual orientation, belief structure, occupation, or affluence (real or perceived)... You absolutely have the right to accept others.Honest.
— Dennis Sharpe
They wouldn't beat him up. They wouldn't break his ribs. He knew that. But they had other ways of breaking him - with silence, with disappointment, with disapproval.
— David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing
Our vision becomes very narrow when we need things to be a certain way and cannot accept things the way they actually are.
— Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
I look out onto this world I'm in and hope that one day all people will be accepted and valued as they are.
— TinaJ. Richardson
Tell me about love when you've been with someone for years, cared for them when they're ill, put up with them when they're miserable or grumpy, taken the sharp side of their tongue and still come back. Tell me about love when you've acted quite appallingly, and the other person has still accepted you.
— Mark Chadbourn, The Queen of Sinister
and to die with the Warrior's Prayer on his lips. For, 'Yes', he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life. Acceptance.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate
We must search the scriptures, accepting them as the mind and will and voice of the Lord and the very power of God unto salvation.
— Bruce R. McConkie
Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like.
— Alice Walker
…she simply accepted it for what it was — a normal, average, everyday kind of miracle.
— Heidi Schulz, Hook's Revenge
Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got an instant family, complete with a suicidal brother-in-law and a Gypsy houseboy with the temperament of a poked bear.” “Merripen is not a houseboy.” “Call him what you like. He comes with the Hathaways. I accept that.
— Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight
Through your eyesI am learningto see myself.Through your heartI am learningto love myself.In the chrysalisof your acceptanceI can feel myselfbecoming.
— John Mark Green
Acceptance is an active response to a temporary situation
—  surrender is a passive reaction to a situation that you think will last forever.-Personal Revolutions
Did other people have this much trouble fitting in, or was it just her?
— Michelle Madow, Diamonds are Forever
Accepting defeat is not wisdom.
— T.K. Kiser, The Firebrand Legacy
the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.. live wild dont be a normal person.. to become presence, means accepting the risk.. and be sure if u don't take risks u'll have a wasted soul..
— Marouane LAASSAFAR
Acceptance.Good and bad,Fortune and misfortune,Pleasure and pain,I want it all,Because it's mine.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, This Is My Life
Now she wanted for me the same thing I thought I wanted. Acceptance, in her eyes, was simply another means for survival.
— Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar and Related Readings
Each new day provides a new opportunity to allow everyone and everything to be exactly as they are. Allowance (non-judgmental, non-resistance to what is) leads the way to contentment ...
— Maximus Freeman
Whatever is going on- accept it rather than try to fight it. When you accept what is- then you are free to act. You have the energy to take action. You haven’t used up all of your energy trying to fight and force things into place. What we resist persists. You will know you are in resistance when you look at what you are trying hard to push away and out of your life.
— Sheri Kaye Hoff, Relax Into Inspired Action: Connect the Pieces and Live Fulfilled
Let peace be. Let life be.
— Chinelo Okparanta, Under the Udala Trees
You are so much more than you are willing to accept, child.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
I rather have you win, because in God even those who are in second place are first.
— Auliq Ice
There's a difference between playing it cool and being a jerk.
— Auliq Ice
The purest love always reveals itself during acceptance.
— Shannon L. Alder
They weren't smiling and were looking in opposite directions, but it was as if their bodies flowed smoothly into each other's, through their arms and fingers. . . . There was a shared space between their bodies, the confines of which were not well delineated, from which nothing seemed to be missing and in which the air seemed motionless, undisturbed.
— Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Until then I had rejected him, refused him his own reality. He had been quite right to say that he, the only person on Gethen who trusted him, was the only Gethenian I distrusted. For he was the only one who had entirely accepted me as a human being: who had liked me personally and given met entire personal loyalty: and who therefore had demanded of me an equal degree of recognition, of acceptance. I had not been willing to give it. I had been afraid to give it. I had not wanted to give my trust, my friendship to a man who was a woman, a woman who was a man.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages
The Key to Abundance is Acceptance. The more you expect the less you accept.
— L.J. Vanier
Something rose in Oscar's chest, like a flower blossoming all at once. It grew until it filled him and threatened to spill over everywhere. The words [he] spoke touched a longing so deep Oscar hadn't even known it was there.
— Anne Ursu, The Real Boy
I realize life is a beautiful mess. You can make it more beautiful by accepting the way it is. If you don’t accept, you’ll mess it up.
— Manasa Rao
We have within ourselves as a species, the ability to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we will be some of the gentlest creatures that ever evolved.
— Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
We see the world not as it is, but as we are.
— Anaïs Nin
Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.
— Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
And sometimes - to get what you want - you must be prepared to accept the apparently unacceptable.
— Anne O'Brien, Virgin Widow: England's Forgotten Queen
So many of us have believed that we need to labor and perform for God so that we can gain an identity, so that we might be accepted. But in the Kingdom, we start off accepted.
— Beni Johnson
Tantra acceptance is total
—  it doesn't split you.
I mean that I discovered there's a difference between acceptance and reignation - one is positive, the other is negative. Acceptance opens the door of hope wide, while resignation slams it shut. One says God is good and loves us, and the other says He is harsh and doesn't care. Abraham chose to 'accept' God's will, knowing full well that God loved him and not only wanted the best for him, but knew exactly what that 'best' would be. Neither is easy when it means relinquishing the desires of our heart, but 'acceptance' promises that God will bless our obedience with a greater good. 'Resignation,' however, can sever our relationship with God, which leaves us on our own, resulting in darkness and despair.
— Julie Lessman, Surprised by Love
Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, gender, belief, and sexuality but also of age and experience. The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser.
— Andrew Solomon
I made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with tons of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks. I have spent a lifetime coming to terms with this idea and I would say I am about 15 to 20 percent there. Which I think is great progress. Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
The more we accept the imperfections of life, the more perfect life seems to become.
— Russell Kyle, Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life
For everything you are, and everything I love about you, there's nothing you can do to save us from an impossible situation. I've accepted that. That's the hardest thing we have to do today and I've done it.
— Taylor Adams, Eyeshot
Again with the us. My heart beat a little faster. How many times had I dreamed of being one of the chosen few? To be truly accepted by the in crowd instead of sitting on the sidelines of my own life?
— Kay Cassidy, The Cinderella Society
Accept that you will not always deal with situations with polished sophistication but trust that you have the power and exercise the will to improve how you cope.
— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
A spiritually mature person is capable of admitting his mistakes and sins.
— Sunday Adelaja
This easy acceptance of an opaque limit to our speculative insight; this satisfaction with a Being whose character we simply apprehend without comprehending anything more about him, and with whom after a certain point our dealings can be only of a volitional and emotional sort; above all, this sitting down contended with a blank unmediated dualism - are they not the very picture of unfaithfulness to the rights and duties of our theoretic reasons?
— Willam James
I’ve lived in this world a long time, and you can’t change what you like, even if you’d want to.
— Hunter Murphy, Imogene in New Orleans
It's my place when I'm here alone. It's ours when you are here with me." ~Nolan
— Sarah Brocious, The Awakening
To be able to accept everything that comes our way, even the things we don’t want to accept, is the art of Love. However, this acceptance isn’t to become conformists or martyrs. The art of accepting has to do with surrendering the need for control; it’s ceasing the effort to regulate our environment and manipulate the human beings, as well as the other creatures, within it.“When we give up our attachment to the outcome and rest our minds in a peaceful state, then we have a better chance to act free from the results. Such a state of surrender could be described as “just be-ing”.“Whatever happens is an indication that at some level we’re ready for it, or at least we’ve got all the tools required in order to become ready, and face any problem or obstacle that may arise along this path.
— Nityananda Das, Divine Union
Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen
Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.
— Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
In broad terms
—  success is something you spend your lifetime looking for and happiness is something you spend your whole life overlooking
What you deny or ignore, you delay, What you accept and face, you conquer.
— Robert Tew
DENIAL OF EMOTIONSOur culture does not handle emotions well. We like folks to be happy and fine. We learn rituals of acting happy and fine at an early age. I can remember many times telling people "I'm fine" when I felt like the world was caving in on me. I often think of Senator Muskie who cried on the campaign trail when running for president. From that moment on he was history. We don't want a president who has emotions. We would rather have one that can act! Emotions are certainly not acceptable in the workplace. True expression of any emotions that are not "positive" are met with disdain.
— John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You
I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
The sentences still form in my mind, and thoughts still do their little show-off dance, but I know my thought patterns so well now that they don't bother me anymore. My thoughts have become like old neighbors, kind of bothersome but ultimately rather endearing - Mr. and Mrs. Yakkity-Yak and their three dumb children, Blah, Blah and Blah. But they don't agitate my home. There's room for all of us in this neighborhood.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Stop fighting yourself and accept where you are in life. Let this time in your life motivate you to let go of all of the things that are holding you back.
— Robert Tew
If our logic is to find the common world intelligible, it must not be hostile, but must be inspired by a genuine acceptance such as is not usually to be found among metaphysicians.
— Bertrand Russell
So this was the Ashram's final joke on me? Once I had learned to accept my loud, chatty, social nature and fully embrace my inner Key Hostess - only then could I become The Quiet Girl in the Back of the Temple, after all?
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
You are here and you can’t escape it. Thoughts about why you came to be here and a poor-me mentality will not help you to resolve the situation. You cannot avoid being here now, in this present moment, in this unfortunate predicament. Your choices, lack of choices, or accidental events, have led you to this moment. That cannot be changed no matter how much you think about it. The only things that can be changed in this present moment are your thoughts and actions right now. Take a deep breath and totally accept this moment.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Yes! You Can Manage Stress: Regain Control of Your Life Using the Five Habits of Effective Stress Management
A leader learned to follow, and serves the followers who are learning to lead. ~T.F. Hodge
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore, but neither would we forsake it or disclaim it either. Does a wolf know how beautiful she is when she sleeps? Does a feline know what beautiful shapes she makes when she sits? Is a bird awed by the sound it hears when it snaps open its wings? Learning from them, we just act in our own true way and do not draw back from or hide our natural beauty. Like the creatures, we just are, and it is right.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was a horse. If the reality is there and you refuse to accept the name men give it, you'll only lay yourself open to double harassment.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
The True Man of ancient times knew nothing of loving life, knew nothing of hating death. He emerged without delight; he went back in without a fuss. He came briskly, he went briskly, and that was all. He didn't forget where he began; he didn't try to find out where he would end. He received something and took pleasure in it; he forgot about it and handed it back again.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
Control doesn't validate love
—  it validates the nonexistence of trust and the painful unwillingness to accept the truth.
I feel like there are fifty ways it's my fault. I fantasized. I took the big pill and the small pill, stuffed myself with substances to make being out in the world with people my own age a little easier. To lessen the space between me and everyone else. I was hungry to be seen. But I also know that at no moment did I consent to being handled that way.
— Lena Dunham
Well, dude,” said Khalil, “sometimes you just have to get over shit.
— Thea Harrison, Oracle's Moon
When you're lost, admit it, and ask for directions.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
One thing is clear to me: we, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
— Barbara Jordan
Acceptance doesn't mean tolerating unhealthy relationships or problem behaviour. In relationships, acceptance has two key qualities. First, it means being willing to recognize that your partner, right here and right now, is struggling too. It means allowing for the possibility that his motivations might be good and constructive, even if it doesn't feel that way. It means not getting caught up in the belief that he's wrong or doesn't care about you, and instead embracing the possibility that he's doing the best he can. He may even be trying to make you happy--but in a way that only makes sense inside the male mind. Acceptance also means embracing the formidable task of empathizing with your partner's struggle when you least want to do so.
— Shawn T. Smith, The Woman's Guide to How Men Think: Love, Commitment, and the Male Mind
Make love to melike you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.
— Buddy Wakefield
Change can never be good until you face it head-on.
— Unarine Ramaru
Reasoning with senselessness will never build faith. Faith is strengthened when you stop collecting fragmented signs and questionable hunches, in order to build an acceptable reason for your wrong decisions and less than desirable circumstances.
— Shannon L. Alder
I overcome the fear of losing.I overcome the fear of changing.I let go of what is going.I allow what is coming.
— Human Angels, 365 Mantras for today
Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely
—  the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.
I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral.
— Joseph Conrad
I accept my body and its defects.I accept my characterand its weaknesses.I love myself as a perfect partof a perfect Whole.
— Human Angels, 365 Mantras for today
we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.
— Alexander McCall Smith, At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
the hardest thing in life is to accept the facts that are hard to accept and to accept the things you can't accept.
— yassi tan
Though people know the meaning of the word acceptance, people are ignorant about it. Thinking acceptance may hurt their self esteem.
— Pushkar Saraf
It seems impossible to wheedle his way out of his impending death. No one has before him. But just as a young person feels invincible, he cannot bring himself to accept the looming train as he stands upon the tracks feeling the deep rumbling of the behemoth barreling straight toward him.
— M. Starks, Aulay
Acceptance is a gift that helps you to skip forward and live in the present. Everyone needs a chance to be fulfilled with acceptance which is the impetus to heal old wounds. Sometimes you meet someone and you can skip forward because of the greeting, the acceptance, and the goodbye. Say hello to a stranger. They will greet you with a smile almost every time.
— Brian Michael Good
i used ti think poorly of our difference, that i wanted to be with you every minute of every day, you dont se things the way i do when it comes to love, and that friction may be the reason i love you all the more.
— Andrew Kadziolka
The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence.
— Debasish Mridha
Being angry, resentful, or saddened by rejection can suck the sweetness out of acceptance.
— Charles F. Glassman
And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.
— Dave Pelzer
Our unity will always be a greater force with mixed ideals than if we demand that others change for us, to what we believe.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
when you obey the rules, the rules obey you
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you, None has understood you, but I understand you, None has done justice to you, you have not done justice to yourself, None but has found you imperfect, I only find no imperfection in you, None but would subordinate you, I only am he who will never consent to subordinate you, I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what waits intrinsically in yourself.
— Walt Whitman
AcceptanceThere are things I missthat I shouldn't,and those I don'tthat I should.Sometimes we wantwhat we couldn't—sometimes we lovewho we could.
— Lang Leav, Lullabies
But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Everything changes. The leaves, the weather, the colour of your hair, the texture of your skin. The feelings you have today - whether they kill you or enthrall you - won’t be the same tomorrow, so let go. Celebrate. Enjoy. Nothing lasts, except your decision to celebrate everything, everyone, for the beauty that is there within each moment, each smile, each impermanent flicker of infinity.
— Vironika Tugaleva
I have breathed my way through so many people I felt wronged by; through so many situations I couldn't change. Sometimes while doing this I have breathed in acceptance and breathed out love. Sometimes I've breathed in gratitude and out forgiveness. Sometimes I haven't been able to muster anything beyond the breath itself, my mind forced blank with nothing but the desire to be free of sorrow and rage.
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Stark truth, is seldom met with open arms.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
…We had spiritually marked ourselves. This marking began…when the counterculture of political correctness began, and the assault on Christian values and traditions began. At first it seemed so ridiculous that it was harmless, kind of like a disease to which we were all immune. Soon, however, it was recolored to equal compassion, fairness, acceptance, tolerance, and equality. From there it evolved into a power with the ability to take any truth and repaint it as a lie, to take any lie and relabel it as truth.
— John Pontius
Losing Foxen was bad. It would leave her blind and lonely in the dark. Being trapped beneath the pipes and choking out her life was awful too. But neither of those things were wrong.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes--and she listened to her and tried to console her with all her heart and understanding--really for the time convinced that Harriet was the superior creature of the two--and that to resemble her would be more for her own welfare and happiness than all that genius or intelligence could do.It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant; but she left her with every previous resolution confirmed of being humble and discreet, and repressing imagination all the rest of her life.
— Jane Austen
Stop fishing for deep sea perch in a pond, because when you reel in gold fish, you’ll only end up disappointed. In time the thrill of catching will wear off, and then you’ll realise it’s not the deep sea dwelling creature you were truly after.See when your own depths match that of the ocean, you will eventually need to accept that no pond can fill you.
— Nicole Bonomi
How often do we truly feel accepted?Are we aware of the collateral effects inflicted when we reject someone or something? How do we move on from a state of constant rejection?How do we gratefully accept rejection?With acceptance, we grow not in a constant state of rejection.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
And like an epiphany just landed on my shoulder, everything feels right. A calming acceptance settles over me, and I know, that even through the twists and uncertainty of time, it's okay if my heart sometimes leads me.
— P.K. Hrezo, Butterman (Time) Travel, Inc.
Jesus’ command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in.
— Kester Brewin
Without the possibility of making mistakes, we wouldn't need to bother about making a decision.
— Daniel Englisch
For years I’ve been trying to turn myself into someone I’m not. Because that’s what Court wanted. But you get me. I can be the man I want to be with you—the man I’m meant to be. You needed me to be that man. I’m a cop. Always have been, always will be.
— Julie Miller, KCPD Protector
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation "some fact of my life" unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
— Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous
What made her most beautiful, was the way she quietly touched those around her unknowingly changing the lives of the many, she smiled at. She didn't want praise; approval or admiration, she just wanted all of whom she loved to be the most authentic side of themselves & openly living to the means of their hearts & truth.
— Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman
For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one's dreams.
— Nicholas Sparks
Accept what it, forget what was.
— Sue Fitzmaurice
There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet.
— James     Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
I must be out of my mind if I loved you in spite of everything you've done, and anyone else would condemn you for it, but I can't condemn you at all. In my own troubled mind, I loved you for it.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Karma does never return to punish. Its role is to assist with solving what has been left uncompleted. It always returns to you, when you are strong enough to look at it. You never are asked to deal with more than you can handle. So relax and accept what is being offered to you. Accept it as a gift of love.
— Raphael Zernoff
If {Death} comes for you?” he said. “Would you be so sanguine then?”	She laughed and the pensiveness was gone. “No indeed. I will curse the stars and go down fighting. But it will still have been a wonderful thing, to cross the mist.
— Kij Johnson, The Man Who Bridged the Mist
Acceptance is the letter sealed within the envelope of inner peace. - Charmainism
— Charmaine Smith Ladd, Shake Hands with Yourself: A Peacemaker's Guide to Happiness & Inner Peace
The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Accept me for who I am.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you come up a bit short on excellence, you still win. When you strive for perfect, you’re just never quite good enough.
— Dawn Gluskin
Nothing happens without God’s will, and life doesn’t always go according to plan. Man proposes, God disposes. And it is God’s will that we need to surrender to. In retrospect it usually all makes sense.
— Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
When you find complete acceptance in the Father, you will no longer stress about what others believe, think or say about you.
— Alisa Hope Wagner, Eve of Awakening
Change what you can, accept what you can’t, and be smart enough to know the difference
— Wally Lamb, We Are Water
We look for our perfect partners, and we wish we can be accepted the way we are. We seek unconditional love. It is all beautiful. While doing it we can always remember that we need to accept ourselves unconditionally, as much as we wish others to accept as with no conditions.
— Raphael Zernoff
Do what you can to help people but have the wisdom to accept your limits.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.
— Charlotte Eriksson
I don’t fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.
— Louise L. Hay
When you accept fallibility within yourself you become more perfect.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life