Acceptance

With this post I'm going to start posting clusters of quotes on topics in alphabetical order. It will make it easier to search for certain topics hopefully.


Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets. Henry Miller

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season. Brendan Francis

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season. Brendan Francis

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him. Clark Moustakas

Happiness can exist only in acceptance. George Orwell

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. Groucho Marx

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. Albert Einstein

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. Maureen Dowd

Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it. T.S. Eliot

Remember, what we allow we encourage. Michael Josephson

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. Russell Lynes

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. Simone De Beauvoir

We must let go of the life we planned in order to accept the life that is waiting for us.

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. Arland Gilbert

You can't please everybody if you are going to make a difference in this world.