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Acceptance Quotes
"It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important."
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"There are many pitfalls in life, one is dwelling on blame. It's pointless. Move on."
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"Being imperfect, makes you perfect."
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"When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open."
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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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"You have to surrender yourself to the experience."
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"Don't worry about how people accept you or react to you. Accept everyone with love."
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"A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude."
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"The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission."
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"I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter - the Eternity they have entered - where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness."
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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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"Sometimes there is nothing you can do."
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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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"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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"I've always wanted the happy ending, but now I'll just settle for the ending."
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"Either nobody's perfect,or everyone is."
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"How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are."
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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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"The more emphasis we put on wanting things to change, the more unpeaceful we will be. The more emphasis we put on accepting and having gratitude for 'What is' the closer we are to arriving at Nirvana."
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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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"It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets."
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"None of this is your fault,' I told him. 'None of it. You aren't responsible for what other people do, good or bad. Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by."
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"It's okay to not know who you are and what you want. Those with the answers are usually very happy in their own stuck-ness."
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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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"In the depth of our heart, we already know that we are perfect as we are. In the depth of our inner being, we already know that life is perfect as it is."
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"I think it doesn't matter if you or I or anybody else thinks homosexuality is a sin. It doesn't matter if you or I think anything is a sin. It doesn't matter if homosexuality is a sin or not. In fact, it doesn't matter if anything anybody else does is a sin or not.Because sin is a very personal thing! It always has been and it always will be!And it has nothing to do with love."
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"No need to feel shame for what you are."
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"An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality."
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"He regretted nothing. Not the way she'd felt in his arms and not the way he'd felt in hers."
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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 came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went."
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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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"It was hard not to feel sorry for a life that had no purpose of its own... His only purpose, it seemed, was to come into her mother's life in order to send her home. For that, Bay decided, she would be grateful.For the rest, though, she wondered if she would ever be able to forgive him. She hoped she wouldn't remember him long enough to find out."
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"When life gives you pain, accept it. When life gives you happiness, reject it."
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"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."
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"I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay."
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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 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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"To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself."
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"But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design."
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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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"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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"One becomes all encompassing (sarvasva, the work is completed), when one can see the world as completely faultless (nirdosh)."
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"A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion."
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"Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better."
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"To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.."
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"If the other person says "Fuck Off," well, then, deal. Move on."
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