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Acceptance Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"I've always wanted the happy ending, but now I'll just settle for the ending."
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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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"There is nothing shameful about loving yourself. The shame is in NOT loving the unique and brilliant individual that you are."
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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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"How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are."
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"Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me."
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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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"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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"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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"Acceptance does not mean accepting those who disregard humans on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation."
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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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"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 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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"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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"Don't worry, eventually everything falls into its rightful place."
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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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"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 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 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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"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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"Being imperfect, makes you perfect."
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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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"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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"When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open."
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"There was a faint ringing in her ears that turned into a roar. And beneath it, a sudden wave of numbness, a too-familiar lack of sight or sound or feeling. She didn't know why it happened, because she had been so dead set on hating him, but . . . it would have been nice, she supposed. It would have been nice to have one person who knew the absolute truth about her-and didn't hate her for it.It would have been really, really nice.She walked away without another word. With each step she took back to her room, that flickering light inside of her guttered.And went out."
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"So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me."
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"A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude."
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"Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
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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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"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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"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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"Share yourself with me. I will never judge you. I am here and I will stay here only to love you."
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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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"To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself."
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"It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire."
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"It's not that I've been invited to the hole I'm standing in. It's that I accepted the invitation."
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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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"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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