Acceptance Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.

  Mary Cassatt

  Rejection, Term

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• If you can accept the flow of life and give in to it, you will be accepting what is real. Only when you accept what is real can you live with it in peace and happiness. The alternative is a struggle that will never end because it is a struggle with the unreal, with a mirage of life instead of life itself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Struggle, Giving

  "Spiritual Solutions #15: Find the Flow" by Deepak Chopra, Annie B. Bond, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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• Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change other, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Change, Expectations, Mind

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.57, Celestial Arts

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• Before we can change anything in our life, we have to recognize that this is the way it is meant to be right now. For me, acceptance has become what I call the long sigh of the soul. It's the closed eyes in prayer, perhaps even the quiet tears. It's "all right," as in "All right, You lead, I'll follow." And it's "all right" as in "Everything is going to turn out all right." This is simply part of the journey.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Prayer, Attitude, Eye

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• Happiness is only available with total acceptance of who you are, including all your fears, worries, and anxiety. It will be there for you when you can see your own inner beauty. You cannot achieve happiness without using your past, your flaws, insecurities, and imperfections in a positive way. It is about letting go and detaching from unhealthy people, ideas, and lifestyle choices, and replacing them with interdependent, pro-active ways of thinking and responding.

  Lucinda Bassett

  Happiness, Letting Go, Past

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• In trying to express only those aspects of ourselves that we believe will guarantee us the acceptance of others, we suppress some of our most valuable and interesting features and sentence ourselves to a life of reenacting the same outworn scripts. Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have relegated to the shadow is the most reliable path to actualizing all of our human potential. Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map that—when properly read and followed—reconnects us to the life we were meant to live and the people we were meant to be.

  Debbie Ford

  Believe, People, Interesting

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• The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death. By acceptance of all aspects of life, good & bad, right & wrong, yours & mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a dance, 'the dance of life,' metamorphosis.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Good Life, Dark

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• My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

  Jordin Sparks

  Journey, Self, Whole

  "September Cover Girl Jordin Sparks: The Full Interview". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. August 14, 2012.

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• If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.

  Deborah

  Ifs, Warmth

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• Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

  Anais Nin

  Imperfect, Teach

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• It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Essence, Rejection, Unity

  H. P. Blavatsky (2008). “The Origins of Self-Consciousness in The Secret Doctrine”, p.67, Theosophy Trust Books

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• The original sin is not that we are inherently flawed, born sinners, or imperfect; the original sin is that we do not recognize, realize that each of us is born perfect, exactly as the universe, God intended us to be. We are all perfect. The universe is perfect. Stop struggling against yourself. Accept that you are perfect. When you do, your highest self will shine through.

  Michael Anthony

  Struggle, Self, Perfect

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• What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Wisdom, Men, Looks

  "Thoughts and Aphorisms". Book by Sri Aurobindo, 1913.

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• Suddenly contemporary Christianity sales pitches don't seem adequate anymore. Ask Jesus to come into your heart. Invite Jesus to come into your life. Pray this prayer, sign this card, walk down this aisle, and accept Jesus as your personal Savior. . . We have taken the infinitely glorious Son of God, who endured the infinitely terrible wrath of God and who now reigns as the infinitely worthy Lord of all, and we have reduced him to a poor, puny Savior who is just begging for us to accept him. Accept him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need him?

  David Platt

  Jesus, Prayer, Taken

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• I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages:
  (i) this is worthless nonsense;
  (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view;
  (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant;
  (iv) I always said so.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Views, Interesting, Usual

  Journal of Genetics, Vol. 58, 1963.

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• In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at the bottom of a long column of numbers and come up with a sum. Perhaps it's one that fills you with contentment and endows you with a level of courage and an acceptance that you didn't know you possessed.Or maybe not.

  James Lee Burke

  Heart, Numbers, Long

  James Lee Burke (2010). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s very strange how electronic music formatted
  itself and forgot that its roots are about the
  surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race,
  gender, and style of music into this big party.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Party, Race, Roots

  "Machines for Life". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com.

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• Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Mistake, Ignorance

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• Me and my friends, we do this little two-finger-on-two-finger thing when we talk to each other, because we're Twitterholics. Maybe #acceptance. I feel like we pay a lot of attention to the word "tolerance," and I don't really like it. I get it, but I don't need you to tolerate this. It is. When you accept something, it's much deeper.

  Rosario Dawson

  Tolerance, Attention, Accepting

  "Rosario Dawson Acts Up". Interview With Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2011.

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• Tapping is a powerful tool that can truly heal, allowing forgiveness, love, and acceptance into your life, particularly when used along with affirmations.

  Louise Hay

  Powerful, Tools, Affirmation

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• A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.

  Charles James

  Hate, Sight, Challenges

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• I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

  Robert Plant

  Apologizing, Financial, Periods

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• When we become overly concerned about our appearance, our spiritual reputation, our coolness, and our acceptance, we are living as citizens of this world rather than as ambassadors.

  Francis Chan

  Spiritual, Citizens, World

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.132, David C Cook

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