Acceptance Quotes - Page 9

• You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Change, Running, Fighting

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

  M. Scott Peck

  Soulmate, Differences, Diversity

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• Hate is a lack of imagination.

  Graham Greene

  Hate, Imagination, Hatred

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• Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Motivational, Peace, Wall

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• To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself.

  Michael Sam

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Courage

  "The 10 Most Emotional Moments in ESPYs History, From Caitlyn Jenner to Jim Valvano" by Lynsey Eidell, www.glamour.com. July 16, 2015.

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• When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Crazy, Mad, Insanity

  Letter to Maxim Gorky, 28 Dec. 1915

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• Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

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• Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. Charity is accepting someone’s differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn’t handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of another’s weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Forgiveness, Patience, Hurt

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• Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.

  Jacques Ellul

  Change, God, Christian

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• To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Different, Passive, Objects

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Moments, Neglect, Present Moment

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• Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Positive, Meaningful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

  Michael J. Fox

  Expectations, Unhappy, Finding Peace

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• It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Men

  1962 Speech at Cornell College, Mt Vernon, Iowa. Reported in the Wall Street Journal, 13 Nov.

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• There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.

  Ken Blanchard

  Success, Work, Adventure

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• I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

  Alison Goodman

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Alison Goodman (2010). “Eon”, p.154, Penguin

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• All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Oct 25, 2012

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• Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Fighting, Reality, Resilience

  "Friends Remember Elizabeth Edwards; Muppets & Healthy Eating", www.cnn.com. December 8, 2010.

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• We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

  Jack Gilbert

  World, Ruthlessness, Stubbornness

  Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.3, Knopf

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• The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Emotional, History

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life.

  Kerry Washington

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Kerry Washington's Aha! Moment". www.oprah.com.

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• I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.

  Kate Hudson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  Interview With Nigel Farndale, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 17, 2010.

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• If you cannot get along with yourself, you'll never be able to get along with other people.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Love Yourself

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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