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Acceptance is the truest
kinship with humanity.
G.K. Chesterton |
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Acceptance
of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not
mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary it
means accepting
it as it comes. . . . To accept is to say yes to life in its
entirety.
Paul
Tournier |
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Some
people confuse acceptance with apathy but there's
all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish
what can and cannot be helped; acceptance makes the distinction.
Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it
by relieving it of impossible burdens.
Arthur
Gordon
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Let
us learn to accept ourselves--accept the truth that we are capable
in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare,
that mediocrity is a portion of almost all of us, but that we can
contribute
from the storehouse of our skills to the enrichment of our common
life.
Joshua
Liebman
To
teach people how to live without certainty and yet without
being paralyzed by hesitation is the lesson of learning
acceptance.
anonymous |
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Of course there is no formula for success
except perhaps, an unconditional acceptance
of life and what it brings.
Artur Rubinstein |
Acceptance is observation of life and
suspension of judgment about whether what
is happening is good or bad, right or wrong.
Ron Smotherman |
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Ask
not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be
that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace.
Epictetus |
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Acceptance
is a letting-go process. You let go of your
wishes and demands that life can be different. It's a
conscious choice.
Gary
Emery |
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God, grant
me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold
Niebuhr
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Acceptance
is not submission; it is acknowledgement
of the facts of a situation, then deciding
what you're going to do about it.
Kathleen
Casey Theisen
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Today
I know that I cannot control the ocean tides. I can only
go with the flow. . . . When I struggle and try to organize the
Atlantic
to my specifications, I sink. If I flail and thrash and
growl and grumble,
I go under. But, if I let go and float, I am borne aloft.
Marie
Stilkind
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The survival of the fittest is the
ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the
strong. The fittest are those endowed with the
qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the
inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize
with existing or changing conditions.
Dave. E Smalley |
The first step toward change is
acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the
door to change. That's all you have to do.
Change is not something you do, it's something you allow.
Will Garcia
(AIDS patient) |
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Everything
in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.
Katherine
Mansfield |
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Our
very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they
are,
ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are.
This is
to adopt a realistic humility without which no genuine advance can
even
begin. . . . Provided we strenuously avoid turning these realistic
surveys of the
facts of life into unrealistic alibis for apathy or defeatism, the
can be
the sure foundation upon which increased emotional health
and therefore spiritual progress can be built.
As
Bill Sees It |
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Acceptance
says, True, this is my situation at the moment.
I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also
open my hands
to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.
Catherine
Marshall |
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step
to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.
William James |
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I accept life
unconditionally. Most people as for happiness on condition.
Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Artur
Rubinstein |
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Life
is not always what one wants it to be, but to make
the best of it, as it is, is the only way of being happy.
Jennie
Jerome Churchill
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and
silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller |
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My
advice to you is not to inquire why or whither,
but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton
Wilder |
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There
are people who live lives little different than the beasts,
and I don't mean that badly. I mean that they accept
whatever happens
day to day without struggle or question or regret. To them
things just are, like the earth and sky and seasons.
Celeste
de Blasis |
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God does not
make clones. Each person is different, a tribute
to God's creativity. If we are to love our neighbors as
ourselves,
we must accept people as they are and not demand
that they conform to our own image.
Henry Fehren |
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It
just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting
to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing
is you have to accept it--take it for what it is,
and get on with your growing.
Jim
Dodge |
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Anything
in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for
us until we make peace with it.
Shakti
Gawain |
God
asks no person whether he or she will accept life.
That is not the choice. You must take it. The
only question is how.
Henry
Ward Beecher |
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Life has no
other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to
accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to,
everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or
despise,
serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful,
evil,
can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with
an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for those
who have the vision to recognize it as such.
Henry Miller |
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Growth
begins when we start to accept our own weaknesses.
Jean Vanier |
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Acceptance
is not a talent you either have or don’t have.
It’s a learned response.
My meditation teacher made a great point
about the difference between a reaction and a response:
You may
not have control over your initial reaction to something, but you
can
decide what your response will be.
You don’t have to be at the mercy
of your emotions, and acceptance can be your first step toward
empowerment . . . For me, acceptance has been the cornerstone
to my having an emotionally healthy response to my illness.
Morrie Schwartz |
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I
started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started
to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I
started
to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever
situation I was in as the way things were, I started to see that
my happiness depended on my own attitude. When I started
focusing
on getting the most out of my life the way it was rather
than trying
to turn it into what I thought it should be, I started to
realize
that I was, indeed, becoming a much happier person.
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| Traveler: What
kind of weather are we going to have today?
Shepherd: The kind of
weather I like.
Traveler: How do you know
it will be the kind of weather you like?
Shepherd: Having found out,
sir, I cannot always get what I like, I have learned
always to like what I get. So I am quite sure we
will have the kind of weather I like.
Anthony De Mello |
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Once you accept yourself there's no reason to
hold anything back.
Stephen C. Paul |
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If
you can accept the flow of life and give in to it, you will be
accepting what is real. Only when you accept what is real
can you live with it in peace and happiness. The alternative
is a struggle
that will never end because it is a struggle with the unreal,
with a mirage of life instead of life itself.
Deepak
Chopra
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When
we accept what happens to us
and make the best of it, we are praising God.
Teresa of Avila |
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If
two angels were sent down from heaven--one to conduct an empire,
and
the other to sweep a street--they would feel no inclination to
change employments.
Isaac
Newton |
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Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way
things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs
to you.
Lao-Tzu |
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| The transition from rebellion to acceptance
has an extremely important consequence. . . in which we
start seeing life as a training school, to teach us what
we need to learn.
Piero Ferrucci |
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Rowing against the tide is hard and
uncertain. To go with the tide and thus take advantage
of the workings of the great natural force is safe and easy.
Ralph
Waldo Trine |
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Only
when you can accept
that you are alone,
will you discover
that you are
not alone.
Leonard Jacobson |
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Our
entire life. . . consists ultimately of accepting ourselves as we
are.
Jean
Anouilh |
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Fighting
life only saps our energy, blocking us from the love,
healing, and compassion available to us from our own hearts.
Once we accept our given reality, our energy shifts. Release
happens.
Susan
Santucci |
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Several of our children have married outside my
faith. Would I
prefer they marry within their religion? Yes, because I know
that
marrying outside the family faith will very likely bring them more
problems--but not from me. My job is to accept them and love
them, not to criticize them and make their lives more difficult.
Bernie Siegel |
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Therapists
want to help us throw out what is unwanted and keep only
what is wanted. But
what is left may not be very much.
If we
try to throw away what we don’t want, we may throw away
most of ourselves.
Instead of acting as if we can dispose of parts of
ourselves, we should
learn the art of transformation.
We can transform our anger, for example,
into something more wholesome, like understanding.
We do not need surgery to
remove our anger. If
we become angry at our anger, we will have two angers
at the same time. We
only have to observe it with love and attention.
If we take care of our anger this way, without trying to run away
from it,
it will transform itself. This
is peacemaking. If we
are peaceful in ourselves,
we can make peace with our anger.
We can deal with depression, anxiety,
fear, or any unpleasant feeling in the same way.
Thich
Nhat Hanh |
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