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Acceptance Quotes
"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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"Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substitutions. Continually it had happened that what she had desired had not been granted her, and that what had been granted her she had not desired. So she viewed with an approach to equanimity the now cancelled days when Donald had been her undeclared lover, and wondered what unwished-for thing Heaven might send her in place of him."
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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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"I would be an utter fool to let my journey be defined by the denial of the journey."
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"Why in the world have we never found what we're really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won't accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need."
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"If you try to hold people to your standard of conduct you will go mad with disappointment and grief."
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"How many troubles (oopadhi) should you keep? Do not invite those that do not come and don't stop the ones that are leaving."
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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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"Anything you strive to correct, it will increasingly become wrong. So just let go of that which does not turn out right."
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"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."
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"There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself."
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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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"To Acknowledge Demonstrates Acceptance."
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"The challenge of being authentic for people pleasers is that we really want people to like and accept us. Being vulnerable, however, requires that we come to terms with the fact that not everyone is going to like us, and that it is okay. Not everyone needs to like us."
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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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"Life is all I have, it is enough!"
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"I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met."
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"I could not see beauty until I held hands with chaos in silence."
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"You do not need to make everyone happy, because you are not paid for."
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"If the wind brushes against you, do not complain; it brushes against everyone."
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"The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain."
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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 closest thing to perfection is imperfection."
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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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"Accept yourself in a way you are created."
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