Acceptance Quotes - Page 13

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

In trying to express only those aspects of ourselves that we believe will guarantee us the acceptance of others, we suppress some of our most valuable and interesting features and sentence ourselves to a life of reenacting the same outworn scripts. Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have relegated to the shadow is the most reliable path to actualizing all of our human potential. Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map that—when properly read and followed—reconnects us to the life we were meant to live and the people we were meant to be.

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Nothing is wrong - whatever is happening is just "real life."

A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown, the problem to be solved, the mystery to be clarified. It is never a matter of civil war; even though of different opinions, or of different political leanings, scientists dispute each other, they compete, but they do not battle: they are bound together by a strong alliance, by the common faith "in the validity of Maxwell's or Boltzmann's equations," and by the common acceptance of Darwinism and the molecular structure of DNA.

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an event may happen or fail. With the degree of information we possess concerning the circumstances of an event, the reason we have to think that it will occur, or, to use a single term, our expectation of it will vary. Probability is the expectation founded upon partial knowledge.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

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.

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult… Many people are often wrong… Don’t bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.