~ Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you're loved, needed, and accepted. ~
Rena Harmon

~ We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ~

~ The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. ~ Nathaniel Branden

~ The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth. ~ M. Scott Peck

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

~ Happiness can exist only in acceptance. ~ Denis De Rougamont

~ The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. ~ Carl Gustav Jung

~ Accept your genius and say what you think. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes. ~ Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides

~ Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

~ Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets. ~ Clark Moustakas

~ Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place. ~ Gene Brown

~ The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life Is the source from which self-respect springs. ~ Joan Didion

~ Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does! ~ Richard Exely

~ The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. ~ J. Russel Lynes

~ Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth. ~

~ You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk. ~ Rosalynn Smith Carter

~ Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with. ~ Robert Lee Frost

C. G. Jung

~ Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. ~ William James

~ Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance. ~ Unknown

~ Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it. ~ Kathleen Casey Theisen

~ Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. ~ Katherine Mansfield

~ We must accept life for what it actually is -- a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. ~ Ida R. Wylie

~ Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. ~ Brendan Francis

~ 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

~ Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits. ~ James Baldwin

~ Listening is a form of accepting. ~ Stella Terill Mann

~ Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it. ~ Kathleen Casey Theisen

~ It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~ Aristotle

~ Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. ~ Marcus Aelius Aurelius