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Acceptance Quotes
"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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"Grains of sand will only flow with the winds, Kenton, never against them."
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"It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open."
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"Your skin is your skin. Your legs are your legs. Your hair is your hair. Your smile is your smile. Your past is your past. You can waste your life hating these things, but you may as well learn to accept them. Both routes are difficult and full of pain, but with acceptance, you will be happy one day, while with hatred, you never will."
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"You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person."
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"There was no correcting past mistakes, especially since he could see no real 'mistakes' he had made. He had done the best he could, and that had proven insufficient."
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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 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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"It's over and can't be helped and that's one consolation as they always say in Turkey when they cut the wrong man's head off."
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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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"I could not see beauty until I held hands with chaos in silence."
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"You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it."
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"If the other person says "Fuck Off," well, then, deal. Move on."
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"Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right?"
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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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"Do not allow your resentment towards negative in this era to blind you into spiting yourself. We were made unique and should celebrate each other's life and the uniqueness that defines us."
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"I don't expect forgiveness.I only expect acceptance."
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"When life gives you pain, accept it. When life gives you happiness, reject it."
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"After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means."
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"I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it's more important to learn to work with what you've got, under the circumstances you've been given, than wishing for different ones."
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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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"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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"Accept yourself in a way you are created."
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"The highest creed is Universal Acceptance."
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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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"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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"And as a sign that everything was now all right in the world, she opened her mouth a fraction, and after arranging her sticky lips better around her old teeth, smacked them and settled down into a state of blissful rest. Levin watched these last movements of hers closely. 'I'm just the same!' he said to himself; 'Just the same! Never mind... All is well."
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"The dimension of space and time, represented by what is transpiring in the here and now, is all that we will ever know. Unlike the continuum of perpetual time and infinite space, everything that we know will experience disruption, dissolution, disintegration, dismemberment, and death. The inevitability of our ending represents the tragic comedy of life. Much of our needless suffering emanates from resisting our impermanence rather than embracing our fate. Only through acceptance of the events and situations that occur in a person's life including suffering, and by releasing our attachments, will a person ever experience enlightenment."
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"Even if I be likened to a rat, I do not care, provided that that particular rat be wanted by you, and be of use in the world, and be retained in its position, and receive its reward. But what a rat it is!"
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"Never change yourself just because others don't accept you, the one who's destined for you will accept you the way you're; not that he doesn't find flaws, but it matters no more for he sees only the spark & magic in your eyes, making you feel special for the rest of your life!"
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"You can only control so much, in the end the rest is up to fate."
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"I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough."
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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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"I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend."
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"You can't escape the existential suffering of life as long as you are living. So get used to it."
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"I thought about Kizuki. "So you finally made Naoko yours," I heard myself telling him. Oh, well, she was yours to begin with. Now maybe, she's where she belongs. But in this world, in this imperfect world of the living, I did the best I could for Naoko."
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