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Acceptance Quotes
"Sometimes, getting comfortable with the circumstance is the only preparation you need to deal with it."
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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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"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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"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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"It's about religious acceptance, it's no longer about religious tolerance."
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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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"It's not the best life in the world, but it's all I know."
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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 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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"Self-acceptance can be daunting at first, but it is made easier with the understanding that self-acceptance is not hinged on perfection. Self-acceptance is the starting point."
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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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"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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"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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"Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy."
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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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"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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"We are figments of the same imagination. We are one."
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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 surrender yourself to the experience."
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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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"Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?"
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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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"I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own."
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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 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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"Liza with her acceptance could take care of tragedy, she had no real hope this side of Heaven."
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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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"Sometimes there is nothing you can do."
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"There are many pitfalls in life, one is dwelling on blame. It's pointless. Move on."
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"Don't worry about how people accept you or react to you. Accept everyone with love."
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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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"The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission."
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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 was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"There's been terrible things we seen, en't there? And more a coming, more'n likely. So I think I'd rather not know what's in the future. I'll stick to the present."
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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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"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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"When life gives you pain, accept it. When life gives you happiness, reject it."
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