Acceptance Quotes
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My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.
Jordin Sparks
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We can co-create this change. Spreading the word, learning to treat others with love, acceptance and forgiveness, and bravely stepping up to do our part... it's all part of the great dance of life. You don't have to sit back and wait for it. The most powerful gateway to the universe you have is the present. All the work of so many lifetimes is ultimately completed in a single instant - and you can choose whenever that will be.
David Wilcock
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My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.
A. N. Wilson
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Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.
Dick Van Dyke
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Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
Czeslaw Milosz
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I feel like decades ago it was either you're black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.
Annie Ilonzeh
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Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.
Denis de Rougemont
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Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
Andrew Solomon
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The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
Sting
The Police
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou
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When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what is involved in our choices, the conflict between deprivation and indulgence ceases to exist.
Cheri Huber
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Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo.
Kary Mullis
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
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If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.
Eric Greitens
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Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.
Linda Thompson
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But at the bottom in surrender so complete there is no coherent thought, no real pain, no feeling, just exhaustion, just waiting, there is something else. Warmth/light/softness. Acceptance, by me, of me. Rest. After a while, some strength. Enough, for now.
Ben Sherwood
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You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Alva Ross "AJ" Kitt IV
