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Acceptance Quotes
"You have to surrender yourself to the experience."
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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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"Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all."
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"There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went."
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"All of us sport an invisible sign around our necks -- 'AS IS. It means, take me as I am. I may not become what you want me to be. And I'm far, far from perfect. But I have some great qualities, too, as well as my share of faults. You will have to take me 'AS IS and I'll take you that way, too."
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"To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself."
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"My sadness is beautiful. It infuses everything I do. It is at the core of my identity and always has been, just as happiness is in some people. I refuse to be told that it's a flaw. I will not mute it with medications for the sake of society. I will hold it close to me and celebrate it rightfully while the rest of the world fails to see it for what it is and it will be their loss."
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"If you feel rejected by others, do not deprive yourself. There will always be someone who will accept of who you are and your hopes would be fulfilled if you are persistent with yourself."
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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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"The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission."
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"We are bound to meet wrong things for wrong things are bound to meet us but, when things go wrong, don't be wrong, let things be wrong."
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"This wonderful gray of acceptance resides between the extremes of black and white thinking; looking for serenity, explore the gray. Part of that acceptance is understanding that life is hard and involves life and death. Part of that acceptance is that I am responsible for my actions."
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"The Vitarags (attachment-free enlightened one's) say, 'Make whatever intents that are suitable to you. If you get sensual intents towards Me, then do those sensual intents and if you have celibate intents towards Me, do celibate intents and if you get religious intents, do religious intents; if you get reverence-intents, do reverence intents and if you want to curse, then curse me. I confront [challenge] no one. A person that doesn't confront goes to Moksha and the person who confronts, resides here [worldly life bondage]."
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"I've always wanted the happy ending, but now I'll just settle for the ending."
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"One becomes all encompassing (sarvasva, the work is completed), when one can see the world as completely faultless (nirdosh)."
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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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"If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him."
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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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"God said to accept whatever circumstances that come along. Circumstance is a natural thing. In it, 'Do this and don't do that'- should not be there. Circumstances are a 'scientific circumstantial evidence' ['Vyavasthit']. You should 'settle them with equanimity'."
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"Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy."
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"Liza with her acceptance could take care of tragedy, she had no real hope this side of Heaven."
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"Acceptance.Good and bad,Fortune and misfortune,Pleasure and pain,I want it all,Because it's mine."
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"A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it."
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"You are too blessed to be worrying about your imperfections. Your original self is perfect in God's eyes, and His opinions will always matter the most."
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"I don't think it's a question of liking or disliking it," Tengo said..."It was the one thing he was best at." "Hmm. I see," Kumi said. She pondered this. "But that might very well be the best way to live your life."
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"The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome - this orphan, this foundling, this outcast."
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"You will get when you deserve, not when you desire! So Accept Life and Live in the Now!"
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"Until I realize that it's all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it."
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"We can't choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs we're given."
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"What's done, is done."
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"You don't see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can."
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"We tend to get irritated when we see somebody doing something that is unusual and unfamiliar to our thinking."
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"Acceptance does not mean accepting those who disregard humans on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation."
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"I still don't know what sort of world this is, she thought, But whatever world we're in now, I'm sure this is where I will stay. Where we will stay. This world must have its own threats, its own dangers, must be filled with its own type of riddles and contradictions. We may have to travel down many dark paths, leading who knows where. But that's okay. It's not a problem. I'll just have to accept it. I'm not going anywhere. Come what may, this is where we'll remain, in this world with one moon."
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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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"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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"Even the faded flower denies nothingness."
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"Don't worry, eventually everything falls into its rightful place."
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"Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make."
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"It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important."
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"As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself off his shoulders: this was more like the world as he knew it."
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"Everyone Regenerates, different ways one regenerates by watching horror and thinking of the good side. Other cry, but in the end all reliase that there isn't purpose of thinking this topic, there isn't purpose to cry. Somebody have died and that's all and It can't be changed!"
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"This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away."
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"We can't always know why things happen the way they happen, or why a person makes the choices they do. Knowing why isn't necessary to move forward, unless we make it so.You may never find out why. Don't let that keep you from moving on with your life."
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"The challenge of being authentic for people pleasers is that we really want people to like and accept us. Being vulnerable, however, requires that we come to terms with the fact that not everyone is going to like us, and that it is okay. Not everyone needs to like us."
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"After death, I will lose my opportunity to complain so I will accept everything with love."
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"A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion."
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"If you try to hold people to your standard of conduct you will go mad with disappointment and grief."
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