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Acceptance Quotes
"I've always wanted the happy ending, but now I'll just settle for the ending."
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"A spiritual man is happy with the whole existence. He says "yes" to the whole existence."
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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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"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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"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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"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.Good and bad,Fortune and misfortune,Pleasure and pain,I want it all,Because it's mine."
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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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"You will get when you deserve, not when you desire! So Accept Life and Live in the Now!"
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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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"We tend to get irritated when we see somebody doing something that is unusual and unfamiliar to our thinking."
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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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"Don't worry, eventually everything falls into its rightful place."
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"A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it."
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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 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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"How often do we truly feel accepted?Are we aware of the collateral effects inflicted when we reject someone or something? How do we move on from a state of constant rejection?How do we gratefully accept rejection?With acceptance, we grow not in a constant state of rejection."
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"A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion."
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"Just don't waste time trying to change what you can't."
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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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"I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest."
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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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"Don't worry about how people accept you or react to you. Accept everyone with love."
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"I'm not an Emontional, but how???I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has happen and it can't be changed", "..But probably it is for good"."
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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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"This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to."
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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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"It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets."
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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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"Even the faded flower denies nothingness."
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"I live there...where the birds are infiniteeverywherewhere they fleeit's a place your eyes can wanderbut never seeWhere everyone accepts me,Without any pretenseIt's a place your mind can picturebut never really comprehend."
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"You'll see so much more beauty in the world if you can accept that there is good in every little thing around you."
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"Beware trying to iron out all your quirks, perceived flaws and doubts. It's often these things that help you find strength, compassion, empathy for others and heart."
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"It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire."
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"It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important."
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"No matter how hard you try, you can't please everyone."
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"Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substitutions. Continually it had happened that what she had desired had not been granted her, and that what had been granted her she had not desired. So she viewed with an approach to equanimity the now cancelled days when Donald had been her undeclared lover, and wondered what unwished-for thing Heaven might send her in place of him."
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"I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway."
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"The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left."
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"I realized I would always be missing something. That no matter what I did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed. I had to think about what I wanted, outside the heat of wanting."
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"What if each time you experienced an emotion, you acknowledged it, accepted it, and became curious about its message for you (instead of trying to make it go away or make it last longer)? Imagine how this could change your life. Imagine how heard, loved, and honoured you would feel if you really listened to yourself."
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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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"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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