Acceptance Quotes - Page 4

I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

There will be mistakes and there will be falters. There will be things that are not a part of your plan. See the challenges in your life and accept them and embrace them.

No single person, including the President of the United States, should ever be given the power to make a medical decision for potentially millions of Americans. Freedom over one's physical person is the most basic freedom of all, and people in a free society should be sovereign over their own bodies. When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak; it is unshakable.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

We don't serve God to gain His acceptance; we are accepted so we serve God. We don't follow Him in order to be loved; we are loved so we follow Him.

The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different from us; at the same time he must keep himself at that remove from us which assures our painlessly being able to confirm this belief about him. Put differently, he is advised to reciprocate naturally with an acceptance of himself and us, an acceptance of him that we have not quite extended to him in the first place. A PHANTOM ACCEPTANCE is thus allowed to provide the base for a PHANTOM NORMALCY.

Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.

The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

Being different is awesome! All of those who are different are more interesting than those who are clamoring for acceptance because they follow the path.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.