Acceptance Quotes

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It's time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

- Jesse Jackson

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

- T. S. Eliot

We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Alan Watts

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

- Michael Jordan

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. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

- Melody Beattie

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness.

- Lawrence Freeman

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

- James Baldwin

The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and it is fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

- Wayne Dyer

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Of course there is not formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

- Arthur Rubinstein

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.

- Sylvia Boorstein

Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me.

- Erich Maria Remarque

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy and sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering I rush to them. They will give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on.

- Helen Hayes

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

- Rumi

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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

- Elbert Hubbard

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

- Sydney J. Harris

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?

- Leo Tolstoy