Acceptance Quotes

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Honore de Balzac

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

Arthur Gordon

The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple relatedness.

Joshua Loth Liebman

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Maureen Dowd

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

Henry David Thoreau

I'm nothing, yet I'm everything.

Source Unknown

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Andre Gide, The Fruits of the Ea

I wish they would only take me as I am.

Vincent Van Gogh, Dear Theo: Au

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

John Green

We must accept life for what it actually is -- a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Ida R. Wylie

Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment

Source Unknown

Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change.

Steve Maraboli

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Brendan Francis

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.

Wayne Dyer

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, attributed,

Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

Paulo Coelho

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Albert Camus

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

Paulo Coelho