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Our
entire life. . . consists
ultimately of accepting
ourselves as we
are.
Jean
Anouilh
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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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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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One
of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our
ability
to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and
everywhere,
and we lose all
power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to
face the worst and accept
it mentally, we then eliminate all these vague imaginings
and put ourselves in a
position in which we are
able to concentrate on our problem.
Willis H. Carrier
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The
people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in
the face,
realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel
themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel
oneself lost. Those
who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be
on firm ground.
José Ortega y Gasset |
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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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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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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
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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
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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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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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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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Millions
of people have wrecked their
lives in angry turmoil, because
they
refused to accept the worst; refused
to try to improve upon it;
refused to
salvage what they
could from the wreck.
Instead of trying to reconstruct
their
fortunes, they engaged in
a bitter
and "violent contest with
experience"--
and ended up victims of that
brooding
fixation known as melancholia.
Dale
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We
cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl
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To
the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove
revulsion,
self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As
whole human beings we are
the creatures of the greatest complexity
on this planet. Respect for this
complexity includes our
insisting on acceptance of the inconsistent and incongruous.
Theodore
Rubin
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Acceptance is
not a state of passivity or inaction. We are not
saying you can't change the world, right wrongs or replace
evil
with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to
successful
action. If you don't fully accept a situation
precisely the way
it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover,
if you
don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know
if the situation should be changed.
John-Roger and Peter McWilliams
Life
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The moment that judgment stops through
acceptance of what it is,
you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for
joy, for peace.
Eckhart Tolle
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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
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When
you accept that you are not in charge of everything, you can
begin to work with the one who really is in charge.
This has been
my experience; when I accepted that I was not in charge and
started
to work with someone else's plan, the Boss showed up.
Now we
are a team and I have less to be concerned about. He
organizes my
schedule. I just follow it, and when He is taking a
day off my wife steps in.
Bernie
Siegel
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your
mind be free.
Stay centered by acceptance. This is the ultimate.
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Become aware
of the dragons and fears inside you. Nonjudgmentally
observing feelings gives us the opportunity to understand
ourselves
better and allows the feelings themselves to heal and
transform. If
you fearfully resist feelings, labeling them bad/wrong/ugly,
they'll
stick to your mind and grow. Acknowledge all of
your feelings. You
don't need to act on them; just see that they are within
you. Invite
your dragons into the light of your attention and
respect. Then,
accept them. Feelings aren't right or wrong;
they just are. A gentle
climate of love and acceptance fosters the possibility of
change and
growth in feelings that only worsen if kept hidden.
Sue
Patton Thoele
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There are things I
can't force. I must adjust. There are times when
the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
C.M. Ward |
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To
accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it
nor murmur at it--this is the great lesson of life.
Dinah Mulock Craik |
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If
the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and
our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we
would
have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what
"good"
parenting means. It's a part of being human to fall
short of that
total acceptance--and often far short. But one of the
most important
gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting
that child's uniqueness.
Fred Rogers
The
World According to Mr. Rogers
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The first key to creating heaven on earth is to accept yourself just the
way you are right now. Recognize that you are perfect just the way
you are, and really believe that you are perfect just the way you are.
This is the very first step, and it is not easy. You, and very likely
others in your life, have been telling yourself something different for
a long, long time. So you have to practice accepting yourself and
seeing yourself as perfect, over and over again. This is the first step.
Practice, practice, practice. That is what makes you the master.
The amazing thing is that as you do this everything starts
shifting and changing— and I mean everything.
Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.
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