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Acceptance Quotes


"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!"


"You can only control so much, in the end the rest is up to fate."



"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."


"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."


"There are many pitfalls in life, one is dwelling on blame. It's pointless. Move on."


"After death, I will lose my opportunity to complain so I will accept everything with love."


"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."


"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."


"Life is all I have, it is enough!"


"Being imperfect, makes you perfect."


"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."


"He regretted nothing. Not the way she'd felt in his arms and not the way he'd felt in hers."


"Sometimes in life you can do everything right but bad things is still going to happen because, it's inevitable."


"What you are trying to let go of...is already gone."


"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."


"I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."



"The world will praise you one moment and defame you the next. So why should we care for praise or defamation?"


"You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it."



"If the other person says "Fuck Off," well, then, deal. Move on."


"Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead."


"Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right?"



"Sleeping in the rain helps me forget things like I am going todie and you are going to die and the cats are going to diebut it's still good to stretch out and know you have arms andfeet and a head, hands, all the parts, even eyes to closeoncemore, it really helps to know these things, to know youradvantagesand your limitations, but why do the cats have to die, Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight."


"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."


"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."


"I don't expect forgiveness.I only expect acceptance."


"Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed."


"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."


"Accept yourself in a way you are created."


"The highest creed is Universal Acceptance."


"Please do not break your heart over the withering of a dream you once held, that never became yours! After all, the shattered dream could have very well been a nightmare and not a dream at all, you wouldn't really know because you didn't have it yet! Let the sparks fade, let the flame dim and die, you'll never know it wasn't poison."


"Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make."


"Sometimes there is nothing you can do."


"If you dream of becoming perfect, you never will.Be satisfied with being imperfect and that will make you perfect."



"Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it."


"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!"


"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."


"Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment."


"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."


"I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend."


"You can't escape the existential suffering of life as long as you are living. So get used to it."


"Begin accepting the gift now, and have every beautiful and good thing in life - and then share."
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