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Acceptance Quotes
"Acceptance does not mean accepting those who disregard humans on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation."
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"Our call to action is to be in the flow of life, accepting life as it is and as it comes. We must allow life to be life in all its impermanent grandeur. Nothing remains the same, and those who fight change, or are in denial of it, create chaos within their own lives and the lives of those they have influence over."
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"To truly accept a thing one must have no inner tension about it."
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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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"You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue."
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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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"It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire."
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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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"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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"No one's approval is enough to make up for a lack of self-love, which is really a lack of self-awareness.When we feel a desire to be loved, it isn't other people's love we need. It's our own relationship with love that we're longing for, our own awareness of being interconnected with others, our own sense of the magic of our own interwoven existence. To seek the fulfillment of this desire in others' approval is a losing battle. It will never be enough. No one can compliment you enough to supplement for the acceptance that you need from your own self, in each moment. Acceptance for your struggles and your talents. Acceptance for your humanity. Celebration of that humanity.Love is an inside job."
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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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"I am not perfect. Are you? Let us accept the fact that nobody is perfect. Let us learn to accept our imperfections as well as those of others."
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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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"Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan."
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"I always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour."
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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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"I've come to understand that life is a constant letting go."
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"I don't expect forgiveness.I only expect acceptance."
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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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"No matter how hard you try, you can't please everyone."
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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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"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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"Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment."
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"You can only control so much, in the end the rest is up to fate."
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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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"Grains of sand will only flow with the winds, Kenton, never against them."
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"All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person."
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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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"Sometimes in life you can do everything right but bad things is still going to happen because, it's inevitable."
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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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"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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"What's done, is done."
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"The world will praise you one moment and defame you the next. So why should we care for praise or defamation?"
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"You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it."
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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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"Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right?"
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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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"Whatever will be, will be, if and only if you let it be."
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"Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell."
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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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"Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed."
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"Some people don't like 'different', it makes them scaredOf people who aren't like them, I think that's weird."
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"If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn't marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society."
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"Don't worry, eventually everything falls into its rightful place."
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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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"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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"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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