Acceptance Quotes

The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets.

Clark Moustakas

No one root is responsible for the existence of a tree.

Melanie MacSmiley

Everything begins with accepting oneself. Without self-acceptance, one cannot accomplish anything.

XuanThu Nguyen

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Albert Einstein

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.

Thomas Merton

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Simone de Beauvoir