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Acceptance is the truest
kinship with humanity.
G.K. Chesterton |
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Today
I know that I cannot control the ocean tides. I can only
go with the flow. . . . When I struggle and try to organize the
Atlantic
to my specifications, I sink. If I flail and thrash and
growl and grumble,
I go under. But, if I let go and float, I am borne aloft.
Marie
Stilkind
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If
we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the
inevitable; but
we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried
it. I once refused to accept an
inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played
the fool and railed
against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of
insomnia. I brought upon
myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of
self-torture, I had
to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter.
Dale Carnegie |
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Life has no
other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to
accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to,
everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or
despise,
serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful,
evil,
can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with
an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for those
who have the vision to recognize it as such.
Henry Miller
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My
happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance,
and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Michael J. Fox |
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Some
people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's
all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish
what can and cannot be helped; acceptance makes the
distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action;
acceptance frees it
by relieving it of impossible burdens.
Arthur
Gordon
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Ask
not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be
that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace.
Epictetus
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Let
us learn to accept ourselves--accept the
truth that we are
capable
in some directions
and limited in others, that genius is
rare,
that mediocrity is a portion of almost all of us,
but that
we can
contribute
from the storehouse
of our skills to
the enrichment of our common
life.
Joshua
Liebman
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To
teach people how to live without certainty
and yet without
being
paralyzed by hesitation
is the lesson of learning
acceptance.
unattributed
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Acceptance
is a letting-go process. You let go of your
wishes
and demands that life can be different. It's a
conscious choice.
Gary
Emery
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acceptance
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I
am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I
have
already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going
to be with
me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always
critical.
So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time
that I accept all the great things about me.
C. JoyBell C.
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Acceptance is observation of life and
suspension of judgment
about whether what
is happening is good or bad, right or wrong.
Ron Smotherman |
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Seek
not that things which happen should happen as you wish;
but wish the things which happen to be as they are,
and you will have a tranquil flow of life.
Epictetus |
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acceptance
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Life
is not always what one wants it to be, but to make
the best of it, as it is, is the only way of being happy.
Jennie
Jerome Churchill
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and
silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller
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My
advice to you is not to inquire why or whither,
but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton
Wilder
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You must know that you are worth much to me whether
you accomplish
anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you
are valuable to me.
Stormie Omartian
Stormie |
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Anything
in life that we don't accept will simply
make trouble for
us until we make peace with it.
Shakti
Gawain
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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 begin to disappear. The principal is this:
Begin where you
are--accept that. Then change and growth become
possible.
Nathaniel
Branden
Self-Esteem
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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. . . . To accept is to say yes to life in its
entirety.
Paul
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Accepting that we have weaknesses becomes a
strength.
Joseph M.
Marshall III
Keep Going |
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I accept life
unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition.
Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Artur
Rubinstein |
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One of
the reasons it's important to accept all aspects of yourself is
that
it allows you to be easier on yourself, more
compassionate. When you act
or feel insecure, rather than
pretending to be "together," you can open to
the truth
and say to yourself, "I'm feeling a little frightened and
that's
okay." If you're feeling a little jealous,
greedy, or angry, rather than
deny or bury your feelings, you
can open up to them, which helps you move
through them quickly
and grow beyond them. When you no longer think of
your
negative feelings as a big deal, or as something to fear, you
will no
longer be as frightened by them. When you open to
the totality of your
being you no longer have to pretend that
your life is perfect, or even hope
that it will be.
Instead you can accept yourself as you are, right now.
Richard
Carlson
Don't
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You
may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment
or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not
sufficient.
Paul Brunton |
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Understanding is the first step to acceptance,
and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
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Because
one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others.
Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others'
approval.
Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
Lao Tzu |
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God, grant
me the serenity to accept the things I
cannot change,
the courage to change the things
I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold
Niebuhr |
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Acceptance
says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look
unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also
open my hands
to
accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.
Catherine
Marshall |
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