Best Acceptance Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 16

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory meant good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.”

“We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”

Said Book Earth Lasts Desire Suffering Fall Girl Wish Acceptance Falling Apart Alaska Turtles Looking For Alaska Book Labyrinth Looking For Alaska Turtlenecks

Book:Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

“I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”

Home Acceptance Letting Go Rivers Currents Swimming Let It Go

Author:Joanne Harris

“Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject me because I am not good enough and that any community that has His heart will embrace me as I am. Jesus invites us into a community where imperfect people can find acceptance, love, forgiveness, and a new beginning.”

Source: Soul Cravings

“That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.”

Imagine Acceptance Prove Definitions Being True

Author:Dan Brown

“I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.”

Source: Eon

“The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?”

Romance Sin Alive Growing Acceptance Familiar Emptiness Buried Growing Old Midwest Flatness

Book:Songs for the Missing: A Novel

Source: Songs for the Missing: A Novel

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”

Knows Want Life Inspirational Motivational Success Belief Responsibility Compassion Accepting Achieve Acceptance Positive Inspirational Life Life Philosophy Politician Succeed Smart Ethics Life Changing Hard Times Believe In Yourself Host Happy Life Life Lesson Success In Life Taking Responsibility Key To Success Positive Life Life Is Short Bad Day Follow Your Heart Road To Success Personal Responsibility Recipe For Success Trust Yourself Be True To Yourself Loving Life Listen To Your Heart Short Life Listen To Yourself Inspirational Success Changing My Life Happiness And Success Inspirational Change Great Responsibility One Life To Live Going For It Responsibility For Your Life Life Changing Inspirational Life Being Short Life And Inspirational Life Motivation Lifetime Achievement Inspirational Student Powerful Motivational Being Happy With Life Accepting Responsibility Love And Responsibility Short Inspirational Life Staying Positive In Life Life Is Changing Responsibilities In Life Greatest Life Life Changing Love Short Positive Where You Are In Life Positive Life Changing Responsibility For Children

Author:Les Brown

“And yet I know I am too young, that we're too young, for me to live my life only as it relates to you. If you had asked me to marry you the night you first told me about your acceptance, I would have embraced Princeton as part of a larger plan that involved me. I probably would have reacted differently. I might even had said yes. Alas, you didn't ask me then. You made plans for your future without me in mind, And that's okay. But how can you now ask me to arrange my life around you?”

Ifs Knows Mind Firsts Made Said Might Young Night Asks Plans Acceptance Involved Okay Relate Ask Me Living My Life Alas Your Future Princeton

Author:Megan McCafferty

“For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.”

Looks Heart Joy Heaven Prayer Simple Cry Acceptance Catholic Saint Trials Recognition Catholic Saint Catholic Guilt

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.”

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not to be assertive. And that, in turn, then leads to low self-esteem, which can lead to eating disorders and increased tolerance and acceptance of domestic, sexual, and substance abuse." "You get all that from a pink Onesie?" Leah said after a moment.”

“If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Friendship Acceptance Real Friends Accounting

Author:Mary Browne

“Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”

Men Reason Religion Atheism Acceptance Logic Libertarian Useless

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.”

Persons Matter Acceptance Fatigue

Author:David Foster Wallace

“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 the end Of a love or a season?”

Men Love Heart Ends Reason Accepting Grace Acceptance Seasons Yield Bows Treason

Book:The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

“Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.”

“When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift. He makes it safe for her to express herself. The more she is able to express herself, the more she feels heard and understood, and the more she is able to give a man the loving trust, acceptance, appreciation, admiration, approval, and encouragement that he needs.”

Men Needs Giving Feels Feelings Able Wonderful Heard Acceptance Safe Understood Encouragement Angry Appreciation Admiration Approval Frustrated

Book:Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.”

“We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not according to their own desires are those who have no desires--which is the majority, actually. People can say what they like, they can speak of abnegation, sacrifice, generosity, acceptance, and resignation, but it's all false. The norm is for people to think that they desire whatever comes to them, whatever they achieve along the way or whatever is given to them--they have no preconceived desires.”

People Thinking Way Desire Speak Given Sacrifice Achieve Acceptance Majority Generosity Live Life Norm Resignation Abnegation

Author:Javier Marías

“The therapist can interpret, advise, provide the emotional acceptance and support that nurtures personal growth, and above all, he can listen. I do not mean that he can simply hear the other, but that he will listen actively and purposefully, responding with the instrument of his trade, that is, with the personal vulnerability of his own trembling self. This listening is that which will facilitate the patient's telling of his tale, the telling that can set him free. (5)”

Source: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS

“We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible and Henry tidying up after someone who already thought she had tidied up. When I kissed Henry I wasn't imagining Ex-boyfriend #13; I was picturing Husband #1.”

Years Found Acceptance Husband Kissing Warm Doomed Exes Consuming Bickering Ex Boyfriend Tidying Up

Book:The Spellmans Strike Again: Document #4

Source: The Spellmans Strike Again: Document #4

“What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of my own kind? Was it because it was exclusive and capricious? The souls offered love and acceptance to all. Did I crave a greater challenge?...Or was it simply better somehow? Because these humans hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire?”

Love Humans Heart Kind Made Soul Ends Hate Challenges My Own Fire Greater Acceptance Desirable Crave Exclusive Fury Spectrum Zeal Capricious Human Love Love And Acceptance

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them.Writing is still the wildest thing I know.”

Knows Feels Writing Mind Stills Dream Practice Fantasy Acceptance Ordinary Uniqueness Texture Wild Dreams

Book:Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life

Source: Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life

“Some people find fault like there is a reward for it”

People Attitude Acceptance Faults Rewards

Author:Zig Ziglar

“There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.”

Matter Lasts Left Knowing Acceptance Picks Mercy Release Severe Knowing The Truth

Book:The Mermaid Chair

Source: The Mermaid Chair

“The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.”

Looks Ends Done Dream Today Sun Dying Acceptance Wind South Burning Waking Vastness Mellow

Book:Journey to Ixtlan

Source: Journey to Ixtlan

“It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.”

Giving Given Acceptance

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.”

Trying Events Acceptance Addresses

Book:The Earth House

Source: The Earth House

“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”

Life Doe Happiness Success Accepting Acceptance Oneself

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.”

Acceptance Inevitable Liberation

Book:The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again

Source: The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again

“'When you were little, what inspired you to feel this way?'" Then he paused and asked, "Looking in the mirror and having it crack in two?" Instead of clobbering him, I laughed-the kind of laugh that escapes into the air before you can catch it. The kind of chuckle that shows a tiny form of acceptance. Trevor obviously didn't expect me to find his remark entertaining. He was primed for a fight. We both cracked up and locked eyes. His gaze lingered a little too long, not in a creepy way, but in a way that says I'm not ready to let this moment go.”