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Acceptance Quotes by Nathaniel Branden
- The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
- Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch it…
- Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.
- Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial…
- The more you surrender to the fear of someone's disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become…
- Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.
More Acceptance Quotes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with… — Marcus Aurelius
- Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon
- And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy… — Alan Ball
- Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. — Honore de Balzac
- The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. — Pierre Bayle
- Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to… — Melody Beattie
- To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir
- It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. — Josh Billings
- I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male… — Jacqueline Bisset
- It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that… — H. P. Blavatsky