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Acceptance Quotes



"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'."


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


"All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person."


"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."


"There is nothing shameful about loving yourself. The shame is in NOT loving the unique and brilliant individual that you are."


"An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality."



"How many troubles (oopadhi) should you keep? Do not invite those that do not come and don't stop the ones that are leaving."


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


"How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are."


"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."


"Acceptance is the most beautiful word in the English language."


"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."


"I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met."


"To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.."


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



"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."


"Whatever will be, will be, if and only if you let it be."



"In this world, the mistake is in where one says he has objections. There should be no objection to anything."


"You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them."


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


"You do not need to make everyone happy, because you are not paid for."


"If the wind brushes against you, do not complain; it brushes against everyone."


"Be open minded like the sky. Be accepting like the ocean. Be loving like a flower."


"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."


"You're looking for a reason,' she said. 'And that doesn't help. It doesn't change the present."


"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."


"The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain."


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


"It's not that I've been invited to the hole I'm standing in. It's that I accepted the invitation."


"The closest thing to perfection is imperfection."


"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."


"Don't resent a woman for who she is not, love her for who she is."


"Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me."


"There's been terrible things we seen, en't there? And more a coming, more'n likely. So I think I'd rather not know what's in the future. I'll stick to the present."
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