acceptance Quotes

You are okay just the way you are... and so is everybody else. Sometimes we want the kind of acceptance that we are not willing to give. Yet life is a two-way street, and we do so much better when we send to others what we want them to send to us. Just a gentle reminder today that you are wonderful, and the person right next to you is, too!

It think acceptance levels sort of swings back and forth. Like in the 60's there was a lot more freedom with sex that doesn't exist today. Language has gotten pushed a bit farther and violence is way far out.

Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.

Tapping is a powerful tool that can truly heal, allowing forgiveness, love, and acceptance into your life, particularly when used along with affirmations.

If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.

Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance.

Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.

Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.

I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism.

Despite its widespread acceptance and the number of lives it has improved, what most of us in the West commonly associate with yoga represents only the tip of the iceberg that is yoga, a tiny fraction of what is a vast and profound science.

Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.

Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.

I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; (iv) I always said so.

Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

Say what you will about zombies and their hygeine issues,at least they kill you fast.College acceptance boards? They like to draw out the torment as long as possible.

We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don't wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.

Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of science. In other words, religion has become a matter of the heart and science has become a matter of the mind. This regrettable state of affairs does not reflect the fact that physiologically , one cannot exist without the other. Mind and heart are only different aspects of us.

To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.

The very acceptance of the limited means of the human condition makes for endless creativity.

The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to \'the sweetness of belonging,\' is acceptance - acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.

Once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can be our way of participating in our own evolution.

I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.

My whole journey has been about self acceptance.

Being different is awesome! All of those who are different are more interesting than those who are clamoring for acceptance because they follow the path.

Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace.

Those who love others <br /> grandly are those who love themselves grandly. Those who have a high <br /> toleration and acceptance of others are those who have a high <br /> toleration and acceptance of themselves. You cannot show another a part <br /> of you that you cannot show yourself. Therefore, begin where all <br /> growth, where all evolution, where all love must begin; with the person <br /> in the mirror.