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Acceptance Quotes
"There isn't any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life."
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"Taste the love of Christmas, the radiance of Diwali, the brotherhood of Ramadan, the feast of Sukkot and assimilate anything that appeals to you. The end product of such acceptance is a peaceful human society, filled with joy and cheer."
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"Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is."
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"It's not the best life in the world, but it's all I know."
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"I can't give up my faith in the longpaws. I understand that we can't rely on the longpaws to help us anymore. But one of us has to remember. One of us has to carry the memories for the rest of the Pack. I'll do it."
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"You are here and you can't escape it. Thoughts about why you came to be here and a poor - me mentality will not help you to resolve the situation. You cannot avoid being here now, in this present moment, in this unfortunate predicament. Your choices, lack of choices, or accidental events, have led you to this moment. That cannot be changed no matter how much you think about it. The only things that can be changed in this present moment are your thoughts and actions right now. Take a deep breath and totally accept this moment."
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"We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased."
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"Life wants you to know yourself, be yourself and love yourself."
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"Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child."
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"No one asks about the truth and non-truth. Should one not think 'why don't others accept it even when I am right?' It is because there is insistence and nagging behind that truth."
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"Life isn't fair.' I said. 'It's taken me a while to get that. It's always going to disappoint you in some way or another. You'll make plans, and it'll push you in another direction. You will love people, and they'll be taken away no matter how hard you fight to keep them. You'll try for something and won't get it. You don't have to find meaning in it; you don't have to try to change things. You just have to accept the things that are out of your hands and try to take care of yourself. That's your job."
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"We are figments of the same imagination. We are one."
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"I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it's unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you."
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"It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished."
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"Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life."
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"In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion."
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"The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that.... Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing."
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"The one red leaf, the last of its clan,That dances as often as dance it can,Hanging so light, and hanging so high,On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky."
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"One truth that has helped me accept some of the most difficult moments and heartbreaking decisions in my life is that I already have all for which I ask. I am blessed! I am delivered from my worries!"
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"Go figure, that happened to be his same style of flirtation as well - annoy her half to death until, before she could stop herself, she confessed her deep darks and bonded with him to a degree she never had before."
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"It's about religious acceptance, it's no longer about religious tolerance."
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"Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy."
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"A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it."
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"Just don't waste time trying to change what you can't."
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"A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much."
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"Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them."
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"Do not allow your resentment towards negative in this era to blind you into spiting yourself. We were made unique and should celebrate each other's life and the uniqueness that defines us."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
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"Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me."
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"I never think that I am the one who must see to it that cherries grow on stalks."
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"I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy."
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"You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person."
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"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"
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"You're looking for a reason,' she said. 'And that doesn't help. It doesn't change the present."
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"I fail to see how somebody can hate me for 'what I do' and what I am without actually hating me as a person. That makes about as much sense as throwing the baby out with the bathwater - or gay man out the church door with his homosexuality."
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"Accept what makes you happy and pay no attention to fearful beliefs no matter who they come from."
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"It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it."
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"There was no correcting past mistakes, especially since he could see no real 'mistakes' he had made. He had done the best he could, and that had proven insufficient."
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"Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you."
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"She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun."
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"Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?"
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"If you wish to live a life free from sorrow think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened."
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"Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity."
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