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Quotes About Acceptance

No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)
~ Pema Chodron
You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
~ G. Gordon Liddy
Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.
~ Bill W.
This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will.
~ Unknown
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
~ Publilius Syrus
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
~ Audre Lorde
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
~ Antonio Porchia
Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.
~ W. H. Auden
Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you'll see in your arms is yourself.
~ Andre Dubus
All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.
~ Phyllis Bottome
Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
~ Epictetus
If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.
~ Chin-Ning Chu
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
~ Stanislav Grof
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
~ William Allen White
For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.
~ Deepak Chopra
Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.
~ Henry Rollins
What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
~ Toni Morrison
What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?
~ Frank Herbert
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.
~ Mark Twain
If you are not afriad, thereis no way you will get mad at me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will hate me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will be jealous or sad.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
People continue to fear dying, only because no one ever has.
~ Sylvia Browne