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“Acceptance does not necessarily help you solve a problem. But acceptance helps you immensely in dealing with it, in making you non-suffering. When you resist a situation, you are fighting it. Whatever you resist, will fight back. Such is Life. All your suffering comes from wishing that your Life is different from what it is. So, in addition to the intense pain that the situation has thrown up, you have now invited suffering into your Life by wishing that the painful situation did not exist in the first place. Instead, embrace the situation. Gracefully accept your Life for what it is. Then, slowly, very slowly, time heals, peeling off layer after layer of suffering, as you understand the futility of prolonged sadness. As your suffering and sadness dissolve, you feel repaired, happy and at peace with your new reality.”
“Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better; it just means that my way of living life on life’s terms improves.”
Source: Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
“Acceptance doesn't mean tolerating unhealthy relationships or problem behaviour. In relationships, acceptance has two key qualities. First, it means being willing to recognize that your partner, right here and right now, is struggling too. It means allowing for the possibility that his motivations might be good and constructive, even if it doesn't feel that way. It means not getting caught up in the belief that he's wrong or doesn't care about you, and instead embracing the possibility that he's doing the best he can. He may even be trying to make you happy--but in a way that only makes sense inside the male mind. Acceptance also means embracing the formidable task of empathizing with your partner's struggle when you least want to do so.”
Source: The Woman's Guide to How Men Think: Love, Commitment, and the Male Mind
“Acceptance doesn't mean predictability. Sex isn't always for 11 at night - - it's also 'meet at a hotel room at noon'. What you feel during dating can exist at home, if you don't suffocate it.”
“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.”
“Acceptance doesn't mean that you've resigned yourself to live the rest of your life with a particular person, or in a particular situation. It just means that you won't cause yourself emotional discomfort because of the way things are in this moment.”
“Acceptance.
Good and bad,
Fortune and misfortune,
Pleasure and pain,
I want it all,
Because it's mine.”
Source: This Is My Life
“Acceptance is a complete process, it can never be partial.”
“Acceptance is a deceptive word. It suggests compliance, a consenting to my condition and to who I have become. This form of acceptance is often seen as weakness, submission. We say I accept my punishment. Or I accept your decision. But such assent, while passive in essence, does provide the stable, rocklike foundation for coping with a condition that will not go away. It is a powerful passivity, the Zen of Illness, that allows for endurance.”
“Acceptance is a gift that helps you to skip forward and live in the present. Everyone needs a chance to be fulfilled with acceptance which is the impetus to heal old wounds. Sometimes you meet someone and you can skip forward because of the greeting, the acceptance, and the goodbye. Say hello to a stranger. They will greet you with a smile almost every time.”
“Acceptance is a great state to be in. It surely does not make a problem disappear. But the struggle stops. The ‘Why?’, ‘Why Me?’, questions die down. There is complete calm. When there is calm, there is focus, there is a sharpness. When you are focused, you invest yourself in solving the problem. You stop complaining about the problem. When you are non-complaining, you are at peace; you are happy with what is.”
“Acceptance is a powerful drug. And I should know because I've done 'em all.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“Acceptance is a simple concept, but difficult to master.”
Source: It's Only Anxiety: How to Recover from Anxiety & Panic
“Acceptance is a small quiet room.”
“Acceptance is a thing... look into it.
If it is something in you, about you, done by you... and you aren't happy with it... you don't have to accept it. You have the power to affect change.
If it something in someone else, about someone else, done by someone else... and it doesn't directly effect you in a negative way (actual effect, not perceived, mind you) ... you can rally against it, or accept it. While you may have the power in someway to force change on others... acceptance is also totally a real thing... seriously. Look into it.
Don't like what others think, or feel, or do with their lives? Neat.
Do those things have a direct negative impact on you?
If yes, then communicate (in whatever means are situationally appropriate) and seek a positive resolution.
If no, then do as I tell my eight and ten year old children... ignore them.
You... no matter your age, gender, sexual orientation, belief structure, occupation, or affluence (real or perceived)... You absolutely have the right to accept others.
Honest.”
“Acceptance" is a very important word in our lives. People drive themselves into madness and death thinking about the chasm that exists between their ideals and their actual reality that they are living. There must be a balance between improvement of one's self and one's circumstances and the acceptance of reality. There is a beautiful dance that one must learn, which involves embracing the reality of your life as you would embrace a Latin dance partner on the ballroom floor, and moving that partner (your reality) in graceful strides, towards where you want to be situated, on that dance floor. If you dance with no partner (your current reality), you will arrive at your destination empty. Empty. That is, if you ever arrive at all. But when you dance with that partner, embracing and accepting it for all of its flaws and its redeeming qualities, you will be able to move across that dance floor as a full, whole person. Wherever you end up stopping in that ballroom, you will stop there as a whole person, not an empty one. So, accept the mistakes that have been done unto you and the mistakes that you have done. Accept the fact that you didn't grow up perfectly and you are not perfect now. Accept, embrace, love the people who are given to you to love. And love yourself just as you are.”
“Acceptance is a whole different kind of maturity.
It is a gift of freedom to self more than to others.”
“Acceptance is also about realizing that whatever emotional energy you’re experiencing is temporary. All emotions are like visitors which come and eventually go. The more you resist these emotions, the more they hang around you.”
Source: Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing
“Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.”
Source: Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
“Acceptance is an active response to a temporary situation; surrender is a passive reaction to a situation that you think will last forever.
-Personal Revolutions”
“acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.”
“Acceptance is an essential realisation of being at peace with the true self - the same self that was once simultaneously immersed in the cognitive dissonance of loving and the fear of leaving someone that neither respected nor trusted my integrity, goodwill and / or values.”
“Acceptance is an important part of serenity. It is not enough, however, simply to accept the things we cannot change. For me, serenity comes from not having any investment in the outcome. If I am genuinely serene, then it will not matter to me whether things change or stay the same. Either way, I choose to be happy.”
Source: The Chanter's Guide: Sacred Chanting As a Shamanic Practice
“Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.”
“Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.”
“Acceptance is awareness,
awareness civilization.
Expansion is cosmic lift,
exclusion castration.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Acceptance is awareness,
awareness is life.
100 calendars fall short
to celebrate mindlight.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Acceptance is easier when one is powerless.”
Source: Pittown
“Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.”
“Acceptance is good but change is better.”
“Acceptance is not
a state of mind you reach and say, “Whee! I’ve accepted myself and all my flaws, and life here on out will be grand.” It’s often a process of putting the memories and angst aside for a time and then sometimes being woken again to the pain, then repeating the process until you finally accept the situation and move on.”
Source: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Run Over
“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.”
“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.”
Source: Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man
“Acceptance is not agreement; it is acknowledgement.”
“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.”
“Acceptance is only necessary if we give circumstances or other people the power to make us feel anything.”
Source: Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You
“Acceptance Is Our Willingness To Choose Being Tiny In This World”.”
“Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy.”
Source: Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
“Acceptance is simply love in practice. When you love, you accept, when you lack love, you judge.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".”
Source: We Give to Love: Giving Is Such a Selfish Thing : Notes and Quotes on the Joys of Heartfelt Service
“Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.”
Source: The Silent Wife: A Novel
“Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving.”
Source: Perfect Trust
“Acceptance is the act of embracing what life presents to you with a good attitude.”
Source: If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul
“Acceptance is the channel for your desires to be fulfilled...”
Source: Reboot Your Money Mindset: Surprising Strategies For Mastering Wealth
“Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.”
“Acceptance is the first step in the process of change. Why? Because it gives us something solid to stand on as we reach for more.”
Source: Positive You!
“Acceptance is the invitation of all experiences – including discomfort, distractions, rumination – with a sense of accommodation, without any kind of judgmen”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“Acceptance is the key to be truly free.”
“Acceptance is the key to everything.”
“Acceptance is the key to happiness. You need to surrender yourself to the truth. You won't be happy until you do.”
Source: The Good Father