Acceptance Quotes

• Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.

  Gautama Buddha

  Expectations, Serenity, Trade

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• We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

  Carl Jung

  Change, Thoughtful, Making A Difference

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• Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

  Byron Katie

  Life, Positive, Wisdom

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• Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Change, Wise

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• The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Change, Second Chance, Growth

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  Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

  Melody Beattie

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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  The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013

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• If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. ... If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive. ... If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident. ... If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Encouragement, Children, Family Love

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

  Maureen Dowd

  Funny, Success, Motivational Sports

  "How to Be Happy: Why You Should Never Settle for 'Good Enough' in Your Life" by Kristen Houghton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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  No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

  Alice Walker

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Memorable

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

  Laozi

  Broken Heart, Tree, Broken Promises

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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• There will always be people who will accept you for what you are!

  Sakura Tsukuba

  People, Accepting, Wedding Vow

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• 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 Webster

  Differences, People, Apathy

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  All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Witty, Truth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

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• Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

  Jean Vanier

  Love Yourself, Learning, Loving Yourself

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• If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

  Wayne Dyer

  Enlightenment, Quiet, Enlightened

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “Real Magic: Creating Miracles in Everyday Life”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.

  Shakti Gawain

  Happiness, Appreciation, Trouble

  Shakti Gawain (1995). “Return to the Garden: A Journey of Discovery”, New World Library

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• Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Transition, Resistance, Surrender

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.72, New World Library

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• I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.

  Sheng-yen

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Buddhist

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

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Im Sorry, Being Yourself

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  We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Meaningful

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• The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Patience, Love Yourself, Recovery

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