acceptance Quotes

To increase your level of self acceptance, think of your unique talents and abilities.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.

Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

Fall with awareness and acceptance.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Enlightenment is the \'quiet acceptance of what is\'. I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are.

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don't think there's going to be any violent revolution about the whole thing anywhere. Of course, it looks like it every once in a while. You hear about it on television and in newspapers: riots here and there. But that is a passing phase.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak; it is unshakable.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.