Quotes About Acceptance

Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell.

It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

And there lies the heart of it, perhaps: in unworthiness. For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love: of accepting the possibility that God could ever love us.

I just lost 'Hope,' that's all.

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

One of the many insights of Carl Rogers was that when people feel unacceptable they are immobilized, unable to change. It is, paradoxically, when people experience acceptance that they are freed to change.

these four person-centered conditions convey what we mean by "acceptance." One honors each person's absolute worth and potential as a human being, recognizes and supports the person's irrevocable autonomy to choose his or her own way, seeks through accurate empathy to understand the other's perspective, and affirms the person's strengths and efforts.

Renunciation simply means a state of un-attachment. A big house and a new car should be enjoyed to their fullest so long as we accept them as things that can and will go away. We never really own anything; we hold title, rent, lease, use, and borrow things during our short visit here. Impermanence is just another name for perfection.

Courage exposes ambushes. Steadfastness destroys enemies. Keep your victories hidden. Do not sulk over defeat. Accept good. Bend before evil. Learn the rhythm which binds all men.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.

People are people. Don't be afraid of them.

There is no such person as a perfect parent, and certainly this book was not written by perfect parents. Do the best you can with the resources you have. That's all your child will ever expect.

Hanging and Riving goes by destiny.

Not a whit, we defy augury; there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,That Time will come and take my love away.This thought is as a death, which cannot chooseBut weep to have that which it fears to lose.

Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I: when I was at home, I was in a better place: but travelers must be content.

He that has and a little tiny wit,With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,Must make content with his fortunes fit,Though the rain it raineth every day.

I'll break my staff,Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,And, deeper than did ever plummet sound,I'll drown my book.