A Quotes
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“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
“Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.”
Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
“Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself.”
Source: The Mad Ship
“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.”
“Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.”
Source: Music & Silence
“Acceptance spells death to a writer.”
“Acceptance. That, he had learned in Russia many years ago, was the secret of survival. ... Accept it. Wait. Let the system exhaust itself. Protest will only raise your blood pressure.”
Source: Archangel
“Acceptance that occurs, with force, fails to display consent and real yes.”
“Acceptance – the beautiful way out
*Acceptance is a wonderful tool to relieve yourself of the pull and push between the past and future.
*With acceptance you fall into the present straightaway.
*The first thing is to accept all the happenings of the outer world and all the happenings of the inner world.
*Whatever problems you have in the outer world and whatever problems you have in the inner world, just accept them in their entirety.
*Summarize all that you experience as problems and accept them in totality.
*Accept all guilt, all mistakes and all failures.
*Even if you cannot accept, accept that you cannot accept. You will then relax and guilt will drop from your mind.
*Just try this small experiment: Just relax for three days with complete. acceptance. If you relax for three days without the pull and push in the inner and outer worlds, are you going to lose all your wealth? Surely not! So there is no problem. In three days you are not going to lose anything. Why don’t you give it a try? *Just for three days, sincerely, utterly, accept everything in your life one hundred percent!
*If you are not able to accept one hundred percent then accept that you are not able to accept one hundred percent.
*Even the acceptance of ‘I am not able to accept myself in the inner world and outer world’ will make you drop from the pull and push between the past and future.
*The moment you understand, ‘I am unable to free myself from the pull and push of desires and fears, I am not able to accept my reality,’ that very understanding will start doing its job.
*If you can fall into the present moment, relaxing from the outer world and inner world things, in three days you will have a glimpse:
*What is life? What does it mean to live in the present moment? If this happens to you, you will experience such ecstasy, such a different space, such a different life that you have never
experienced before.
*You have lived based on your philosophy for maybe the last thirty years. Just for three days, don’t try to alter anybody in the outer world.
*You will see that when you experiment with such great techniques, they work miracles in your being.
*They start a great alchemy process in your being.
*If you are not able to be sincere, accept that you are not able to be sincere. Even that sincerity is enough. You will start seeing a different space in you.”
“Acceptance
There are things I miss
that I shouldn't,
and those I don't
that I should.
Sometimes we want
what we couldn't—
sometimes we love
who we could.”
Source: Lullabies
“Acceptance to change with determination and mind power brings better lifestyle choices.”
“Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of science. In other words, religion has become a matter of the heart and science has become a matter of the mind. This regrettable state of affairs does not reflect the fact that physiologically , one cannot exist without the other. Mind and heart are only different aspects of us.”
“Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.”
Source: The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics
“Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!”
“Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.”
“Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction.”
Source: You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas
“Acceptance. We want someone to look at us, and really see us—our physical flaws, our personality quirks, our insecurities. And we want them to be okay with every square inch of who we are. We’re always afraid we might be too needy or too much work. We put all these limitations on ourselves and our relationships because we’re afraid that we’re not really loved. That we’re not really accepted. We hide little pieces of ourselves because we think that might be the one thing that finally drives away the person who’s supposed to love us.”
Source: Cross Your Heart: A Broken Heart Novel
“Accepte avec sérénité les choses que tu ne peux changer, aie le courage de changer celles que tu peux, et aie la sagesse de reconnaître la différence.”
“Accepted imperfection is better than pointless perfection.”
“Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'.”
“Accepted students deserve comprehensive enrolment packages that equip them with all necessary information to make informed decisions about their educational journey.”
“Accepted that we all are human resources, but we are humans first and resources later.”
“Accepter son humanité, avec ses forces et ses faiblesses, est le premier pas vers une confiance authentique et inébranlable.”
“Accepting a disease label means shutting off from your potential”
“Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.”
“Accepting a mistake doesn't change the fact that you made a mistake. It makes you aware of the actions that you shouldn't repeat.”
“Accepting a psychiatric diagnosis is like a religious conversion. It's an adjustment in cosmology, with all its accompanying high priests, sacred texts, and stories of religion. And I am, for better or worse, an instant convert.”
Source: The Buddha and the Borderline
“Accepting a wrong opportunity is as risky as refusing a good opportunity. The risk-benefit matrix is a human software that needs to be active all the time, always adjusting to its changing environment.”
Source: Quantraz
“Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.”
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
“Accepting and walking in a good counsel paves way for the unborn generation”
“Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.”
“Accepting both the opportunity and the responsibility evokes a great deal of humility.”
“Accepting conflict brings you closer to knowing peace.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, "Why do people die?" and "Why is this happening to me?" Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.”
Source: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
“Accepting defeat is not wisdom.”
Source: The Firebrand Legacy
“Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.”
“Accepting employment in any organization requires the new employee to adjust their personality in order to meld in with the operable business environment and applicable social climate. An employee whom cannot parrot the ideas, standards, mores, and ethical mandates of their professional organization might endure a turbulently relationship that will expose their core ideology.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Accepting errors is one of the hallmarks of true humility; while pride shifts blame to somebody or something else.”
“Accepting evil is worse than committing evil.”
Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
“Accepting evil is worse than committing evil. You must – I repeat – you must, as a human being, stand up on the side of humanism, against barbarian inhumanism, for it is your action, that shall determine whether your children shall live in a world of peace and harmony or a world of chaos and discriminations.”
Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
“Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.”
Source: Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
“Accepting failures with a positive frame of mind is the first step in your learning curve.”
“Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.”
“Accepting God’s acceptance of me doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying. It means I’m going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.”
Source: Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others
“Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.”
“Accepting help is its own kind of strength.”
“Accepting help shames only the arrogant.”
“Accepting her as she is allows her to feel loved and valued for her true self, not for how well she fits into a mold. Unrealistic expectations can create pressure, making her feel like she’s constantly falling short, even when she’s giving her all.”
Source: 365 Ways a Year to Cater to Her: Because She Deserves Your Best-Not Occasionally, but Always
“Accepting his form of saving was to strip me of who I was and fit a mold of who he wanted me to be.”
Source: Dark Eyes: White Lies
“Accepting "I'm Bad too" is a Great and Beautiful Maturity so far.”