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Quotes About Acceptance

Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.
~ Sri Chinmoy
I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
~ William Cowper
There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
~ Bernard Malamud
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
~ Seneca the Younger
Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!
~ Pema Chodron
It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes
~ Publilius Syrus
Don't let people who live in fear and hate govern how you live.
~ Melissa Etheridge
I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.
~ Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby
If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?
~ Courtney Milan
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance
~ Epictetus
That which you fear the most will meet you half way.
~ Victoria Williams
It'll never go away until the fear you are running from is finally embraced.
~ Garth Brooks
The best part of chronic head lice is it takes away your fear of dying alone.
~ Dana Gould
Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection
~ Nir Eyal
Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.
~ Lionel Shriver
Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.
~ Amy Ray
There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
~ Giordano Bruno
The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.
~ Marianne Williamson
Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.
~ Laozi
I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience.
~ Sissy Spacek
I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.
~ Will Self