Acceptance Quotes
2150 quotes by 1277 authors
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Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not…
— Sarah Dessen
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For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and…
— Carson McCullers
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I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care,…
— Nhat Hanh
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
— Henry David Thoreau
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We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate…
— Helen Hayes
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Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly…
— Fred Rogers
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Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
— Isabel Allende
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
— Jonathan Swift
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Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a…
— Robert Frost
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Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.
— David Foster Wallace
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When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift. He makes it safe for…
— John Gray
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To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not according…
— Javier MarÃas
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The therapist can interpret, advise, provide the emotional acceptance and support that nurtures personal growth, and above all, he can listen. I do not mean…
— Sheldon B. Kopp
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We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible…
— Lisa Lutz
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Some people find fault like there is a reward for it
— Zig Ziglar
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What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of my own kind? Was it because it…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary…
— Natalie Goldberg
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There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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