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Quotes About Acceptance

For every person that likes you there is going to be a person that doesn't like you. It's the nature of humanity.
~ Jamie Campbell Bower
Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.
~ Lindsay Lohan
there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
~ Harold Bloom
Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.
~ Leo Strauss
I am only human, although I regret it.
~ Mark Twain
We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.
~ Charlie Chaplin
The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate.
~ Pema Chodron
You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.
~ Martha Beck
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
~ Plotinus
Don't ask God to change the laws of nature for you.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.
~ Hadewijch
Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.
~ Mark Nepo
It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?
~ Pietro Aretino
The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We're not here to get over our humanness, but rather to accept and make peace with it... and to remember our Divine nature.
~ Sonia Choquette
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
~ John Cage
Love is unconditional acceptance. That quality is also our essential nature, who we really are.
~ Peter Shepherd
Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.
~ Philip Pullman
Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy
~ Mike Johanns
Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.
~ Robert Redford