Quotes About Acceptance

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

I am what I am, so take me as I am!

I is who I is.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are.

Every man must at last accept himself for his portion, and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.

Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

Change occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she is not.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all, accept these things.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

To love others, we must first learn to love ourselves.

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we are.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.

It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.