Acceptance Quotes (61) Spiritual Sayings
Summary: Definition of Acceptance. The action of consenting to receive or undertake something offered. The acceptance of responsibility. The action or process of being received as adequate or suitable, typically to be admitted into a group.
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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
~ Alice Walker
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
~ Lao Tzu
“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
~ Lao Tzu
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
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
~ Alice Walker
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world
~ Dorothy Nolte
Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.
~ Eckhart Tolle
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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
Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.
~ Wayne Dyer
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
~ James Anthony Froude
Accept your genius and say what you think.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.
~ Mary Abigail Dodge
Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.
~ Shakti Gawain
I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.
~ Sheng-yen
There will always be people who will accept you for what you are!
~ Sakura Tsukuba
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.
~ John Lennon
The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
~ Abdul Kalam
Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.
~ Wallace Stevens
Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.
~ D.T. Suzuki
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
~ Brian Tracy
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
~ Jean Toomer
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
~ William James
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
~ Mark Twain
I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
~ Nhat Hanh
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
~ Michael J. Fox
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
~ Albert Einstein
Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
~ Helen Keller
A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
~ Laozi
The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.
~ Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
~ Carl Jung
It's not your job to like me - it's mine
~ Byron Katie
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
~ Oprah Winfrey
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
~ Denis Waitley
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
~ Robert Frost
Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
~ Goswami Kriyananda
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
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
~ Albert Einstein
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
~ Ray Bradbury
When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.
~ David Korten
Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.
~ Joshua L. Liebman
Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
~ Alan Watts
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
~ Bruce Lee
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
~ Rumi
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
~ Carl Jung
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
~ George Orwell
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