Accepting Quotes

It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.

The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts.

When we learn to accept difficult circumstances patiently, the real problem disappears.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.

We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior.

About Thatcher's death: Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out on competetive tender and accept the cheapest bid. That's what she would have wanted.

You should never accept what can be offered to you if you feel it can be improved.

I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.

Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.

Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change other, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost.

We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.

Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.

A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth.

I decided to accept as true my own thinking.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

I want to be the best. So whatever comes with that, I have to accept it.

When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.

...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.

I feel that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.

To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.