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Acceptance Quotes
"If you try to hold people to your standard of conduct you will go mad with disappointment and grief."
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"Being imperfect, makes you perfect."
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"Just don't waste time trying to change what you can't."
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"The more accepting I've become about all the pieces of myself-even the crazed, hysterical ones-the more relaxed I've become with who I am.And then one day you figure out how to be more peaceful with all of your hysteria, and suddenly you're not as hysterical so often."
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"No need to feel shame for what you are."
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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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"Don't worry about how people accept you or react to you. Accept everyone with love."
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"Disturbing anything [situation] results in damage. To improve, you do not need to disturb anything that is natural and has turned bad. You need to make way out; you need to find a solution."
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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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"It's an imperfect world, so you fit in perfectly."
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"A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude."
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"She is so secure in her beautifully imperfect self that she would welcome you with open arms, no judgment, and complete acceptance."
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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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"Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them."
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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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"It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability."
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"I've come to understand that life is a constant letting go."
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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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"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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"You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas."
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"It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets."
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"Blame anchors us into the past, a place we cannot change. Acceptance frees us to the future."
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"Anything you strive to correct, it will increasingly become wrong. So just let go of that which does not turn out right."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"No matter how hard you try, you can't please everyone."
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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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"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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"There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself."
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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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"Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment."
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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 would be an utter fool to let my journey be defined by the denial of the journey."
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"To Acknowledge Demonstrates Acceptance."
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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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"Today, I saw an owl with broken eyes. A blind owl with eyes that look like a dark night filled with bright stars. I used to think that no one could really love a person so broken in so many places. But the broken owl has two eyes filled with a starry universe, and that's when I realised, that you can be loved for your brokenness. Not just despite it. It only takes someone who knows what a starry universe would feel like. Broken is beautiful, too. And sometimes even more beautiful."
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"Begin accepting the gift now, and have every beautiful and good thing in life - and then share."
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"Why in the world have we never found what we're really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won't accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need."
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"There are many pitfalls in life, one is dwelling on blame. It's pointless. Move on."
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"We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough."
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"I am a flawed person. A brook with many stones, a clear blue sky with many blackbirds. I have many shortcomings. A rainbow that's not long enough, a starry night with clouds. But I can only be thankful to the God who loves me just this way, and I can only be grateful to the people in my life who accept the clear blue sky with many blackbirds and who are patient with the rainbow that isn't long enough. And because of this, I am taught love, because of this I love my God, and I love these people."
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"Life will never meet all of our expectations. We must nonetheless accept all disappointments without becoming bitter and cynical. We must always remain mindful of the opportunity to extend kindness and work to improve our character."
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"You have to accept that you'll never be good enough for some people. Whether that is going to be your problem or theirs is up to you."
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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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