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Acceptance Quotes
"Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer."
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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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"After death, I will lose my opportunity to complain so I will accept everything with love."
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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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"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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"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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"You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world filled with voices that shout: 'You are no good, you are ugly; you are worthless; you are despicable, you are nobody- unless you can demonstrate the opposite.' These negative voices are so loud and so persistent that it is easy to believe them. That's the great trap. It is the trap of self-rejection."
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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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"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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"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."
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"After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means."
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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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"To experience what isn't, love what is."
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"Be open minded like the sky. Be accepting like the ocean. Be loving like a flower."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless."
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"Stop trying to be Perfect, And that makes you kosher Perfect."
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"What you are trying to let go of...is already gone."
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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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"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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"Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead."
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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 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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"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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"Even the faded flower denies nothingness."
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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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"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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"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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"Writing is a cerebral journey where the writer molds experience into useful thought capsules and thoughtfully takes recitative inventory of their spiritual depot. The act of personal essay writing is a subtle search to track and discover how a contiguous chain of occurrences links the essayist's case history of rational and irrational behavior. Writing a person's life story fosters acceptance of their prior personal failures and serves to open a doorway to living modestly and harmoniously."
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"People will not refrain from criticizing. But one should not keep on criticizing. The world is such that it will run smoothly without any criticism. This world is not worth interfering in. It is just worth 'Knowing'."
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"Don't resent a woman for who she is not, love her for who she is."
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"Acceptance is the most beautiful word in the English language."
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"Just because you don't like peanut butter doesn't necessarily mean you can't like . . . peanuts."
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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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"In this world, the mistake is in where one says he has objections. There should be no objection to anything."
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"Don't expect anything from anyone unless you are prepared to accept denial."
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"You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them."
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"Dare to be different. Dare to accept yourself for who YOU are. Dare to live your life without limits. Dare to follow YOUR dreams. Dare to explore, experience, and make mistakes. Dare to live your life without being afraid. Live, learn, and grow. It's your life! Make every decision that you make count for something. Always know your value as a person and don't allow anybody to make you feel anything different. You may have to stand alone at times, but don't be dismayed. There's something special about you! Allow yourself to shine and dare to do the unknown."
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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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"The highest creed is Universal Acceptance."
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"If you dream of becoming perfect, you never will.Be satisfied with being imperfect and that will make you perfect."
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