Acceptance Quotes - Page 5

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.

Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation.

Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.

The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.

To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.

Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different.

By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to be whatever they choose-even if you irritate yourself about it.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.