Quotes About Acceptance

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.

Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.

Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection.

And have the courage to accept that you're not perfect; nothing is, and no one is - and that's OK.

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.

I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.

I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

You must have the courage to face what happened today and to live with it in your heart and to use the memory of it to grow and be strong.

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Fatalism is a lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream.

I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.

I'd like to die like my old dad, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers.

A few weeks ago my uncle came over to borrow my dad's socket set and when he asked my dad how he was my dad said oh unexceptional. Living quietly with my disappointments. And how are you

People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak.

Dear Dad, When you sent me to school that morning, I thought you loved me. But now I see you for what you are. You called me a monster and a freak. But you're the one that raised me.

My son Jack once said to me, 'Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?' And I said, 'I don't care as long as they're laughing.'