65 Acceptance Quotes To Help You Embrace Life Fully

By Maxime Lagacé

Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page.

Here are 65 of the best acceptance and self-acceptance quotes I could find. What’s my goal? Simply to help you embrace life and yourself fully. You’ll discover authors like Lao Tzu, Thich Nhat Hanh, Eckhart Tolle, and more. Enjoy!
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Acceptance is the road to all change. Bryant McGill

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First you accept, then you become peaceful. Maxime Lagacé

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. Mark Twain

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Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. Lao Tzu

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Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they’re alive and human. Albert Ellis

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The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Carl Gustav Jung

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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Eckhart Tolle (Source)

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Happiness can exist only in acceptance. George Orwell

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The true measure of maturity is the willingness to accept the inevitable. Maxime Lagacé

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Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well. Epictetus

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Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable. Sarah Dessen

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When the resistance is gone, so are the demons. Pema Chödrön

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To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. Thich Nhat Hanh

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My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Michael J. Fox

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When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life. Eckhart Tolle

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More Quotes About Acceptance

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. Nathaniel Branden

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself. Nathaniel Branden

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King Jr

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you. George R.R. Martin

Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. 14th Dalai Lama

Radical acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is. Tara Brach (Radical Acceptance, Amazn book)

I found myself praying: “May I love and accept myself just as I am. Tara Brach

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When you learn to accept fear, you cease making a catastrophe of it. Then it ceases to be your master. Nathaniel Branden

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

Face the demands of life voluntarily. Respond to a challenge, instead of bracing for a catastrophe. Jordan Peterson

Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me. Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass)

Acceptance is the spiritual hammock. Tim Berners-Lee

Acceptance is serenity. E.S. Carter

Self-acceptance isn’t giving up on self-improvement. It’s deciding to stop beating yourself up for being human — and keep working to become a better human. Getting comfortable in your own skin doesn’t stifle growth. When you can laugh at your faults, it’s easier to overcome them. Adam Grant (Source)

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen. Ralph Marston

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly. Eckhart Tolle

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Complete acceptance is the doorway to transformation. Eckhart Tolle (Source)

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection. Lecrae Moore

You don’t need to learn to be positive. Positivity is its own illusion. See things as they are. Some things seem good, other things seem bad. Seek peace in reality, in acceptance. Thibaut

Please stop seeking peace, love, emotional-security, acceptance and approval, from people who’s heart and minds are toxic. Lalah Delia

The more you practice self-acceptance, the more you’ll realize the only person who’s acceptance you ever needed, is your own. Mel Robbins (Source)

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. Jim Morrison

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Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu

The first step to accepting yourself is to simply become comfortable being with yourself. There is a benefit to sitting in silence for a few moments each day. It’s difficult to work through internal baggage when you are constantly receiving external stimuli. James Clear (Source)

The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them. Pema Chödrön

Honor yourself by not criticizing, judging, or denying what you feel. Iyanla Vanzant

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

I’d rather live my life accepting that I’m not perfect, than spending my whole life pretending to be. Soulja Boy

Objective judgment, now at this very moment. Unselfish action, now at this very moment. Willing acceptance — now at this very moment — of all external events. That is all you need. Marcus Aurelius

A great advantage can be found in accepting hard truths faster than others. Shane Parrish (Source)

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What would it be like if I could accept life – accept this moment – exactly as it is? Tara Brach

Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world. Eckhart Tolle

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It’s a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it. Sarah Dessen (What Happened to Goodbye)

Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Brené Brown

Happiness and joy result from total acceptance of living in the present moment. Deepak Chopra

Accepting is no substitute for understanding. Naval Ravikant (Source)

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on. Charlaine Harris

Related: 8 Ways to Accept Yourself (psychcentral.com)

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There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. Shannon L. Alder

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance. Thomas à Kempis

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it. Jack Kornfield (Source)

Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, and respect when you don’t even show that to yourself. Steve Maraboli

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory. Jim Carrey

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace. Eckhart Tolle (Practicing the Power of Now, Amazon book)

All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person. Asa Don Brown

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As you get wiser, you realize fear, seriousness and angst lead nowhere. Acceptance is the bridge. Maxime Lagacé

Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. Paul Tournier

Acceptance is the key to be truly free. Katy Perry

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly. Eckhart Tolle

Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind. Eckhart Tolle

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Accept the chaos of life. Fools try to control it. The wise dance with it. Maxime Lagacé

Key Takeaways

  • Acceptance starts with self-awareness, humility, and courage.
  • Resisting reality creates friction, confusion, and misery.
  • The more you expect, the less room there is for happiness.
  • If you don’t accept it means you’re living in the past: with how things should be and how things could have been.
  • How to be more accepting?
    • Keep in mind: You are not perfect. I am not perfect. Life is not perfect. Relax. Smile.
    • Have better self-talk. Repeat to yourself “accept” more often.
    • Learn about the benefits of meditation. Check out loving-kindness to be more accepting toward others.
    • Reminder #1: We are all in this together, doing our best.
    • Reminder #2: Judging creates a wall. Accepting creates a bridge.

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Author Bio

maxime lagace

Maxime Lagacé started collecting quotes in 2004 after he lost his girlfriend in a car accident.

In search of meaning, he dived in the self-improvement world, psychology and trail running.

Books, blogs, quotes and nature became his guide.

He started journaling, reflecting, writing his thoughts, feelings and quotes.

His goal was to understand his pain, his depression, his fears, his lack of motivation and inspiration.

He finished his software engineering degree in 2007 at the École de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal.

A few years later, he started his first website to share his love of quotes.

Maxime is a father of two, husband, and INFJ.

Other notable interests of Maxime are health (mental and physical), meditation, bananas, SEO, human potential, and education.

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April 15, 2022

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