Quotes About Acceptance

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

Woe to him who could look on and say: The fool! If she had waited, if she had let time do its work, her despair would surely have subsided, another man would have turned up to comfort her.— That's just like saying: The fool, dying of fever! If he had waited until his strength returned, his circulation improved, the tumult of his blood calmed down, everything would have turned out well and he would still be alive today!

Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?

I'm glad that I am not young in so thoroughly finished a world.

We can accept the unpleasant more readily than we can the inconsequential.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

I'm not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don't. Move on and move out.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not.

That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.

But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.