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Acceptance Quotes
"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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"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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"An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality."
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"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"
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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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"It's an imperfect world, so you fit in perfectly."
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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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"What's done, is done."
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"Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right?"
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"To truly accept a thing one must have no inner tension about it."
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"No matter how hard you try, you can't please everyone."
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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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"You can only control so much, in the end the rest is up to fate."
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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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"We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what's not quite right is quite wrong."
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"A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion."
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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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"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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"Until I realize that it's all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it."
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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 don't see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can."
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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 don't expect forgiveness.I only expect acceptance."
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"Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed."
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"After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means."
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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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"Blame anchors us into the past, a place we cannot change. Acceptance frees us to the future."
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"Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it's a little closer to being perfect."
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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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"Even the faded flower denies nothingness."
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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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"Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it."
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"You are too blessed to be worrying about your imperfections. Your original self is perfect in God's eyes, and His opinions will always matter the most."
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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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"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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"Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer."
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"It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless."
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"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am 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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"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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"What you are trying to let go of...is already gone."
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"Either nobody's perfect,or everyone is."
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"You can love something without loving everything about it. You don't have to feel embarrassed about not being proud. That applies to hockey, but it also applies to friends."
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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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"Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan."
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