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“When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms into a beautiful nature and soft countenance. In others, however, it leads to the formation of a tiny ice flint in their heart. Ice that, though at times concealed, never properly melts. Rose, though she would have liked to be one of the former, knew herself deep down to be one of the latter.”

Heart Persons Age Beautiful Acceptance Rose Calm Tiny Ice Former Maturity Latter Deep Down Concealed Formation Countenance Beautiful Nature Early Death Age And Experience

Author:Kate Morton

“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.”

Inspirational Mind Reality Inspiration Motivation Attitude Acceptance Defeat Accepted

Book:Jeet kune do: Bruce Lee's commentaries on the martial way

Source: Jeet kune do: Bruce Lee's commentaries on the martial way

“Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.”

Sometimes Moving Acceptance Regret Forgiveness Sookie Stackhouse

Book:Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

Source: Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

“And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.”

Thinking Sometimes Choices Acceptance Madness

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to look at me the way you look at him, knowing the worst. I want you to trust me, even when your brain tells you you shouldn't, I want you to ignore common sense and your lifelong need to protect yourself. I want you to give yourself to me, body and soul.”

Way Want Needs Giving Looks Soul Body Father Common Brain Knowing Worst Acceptance Protect Blind Devotion Common Sense Innocence I Want You Look At Me Trust Me Lifelong Protect Yourself

Author:Anne Stuart

“The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.”

Doe Facts Individual Process Feminism Acceptance Degrees Negative Feminist Legacy Exception Racist Bad Ass Sexist American Woman Labeling Socialization

Book:Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

Source: Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

“Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.”

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

“All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.”

Life Inspirational Needs Moments Spiritual Accepting Acceptance Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Ease Here And Now Power Of Now Power Of Now Book

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.”

Mind Made Moments Joy Change Rooms Acceptance Judgement

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.”

World Want Mind Self Moments Feelings Body Choices Chance Virtue Acceptance Vices That Moment Self Acceptance Justified Being There New Self

Book:The Magus

Source: The Magus

“You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”

People Should Persons Hate Quality Enemy Worst Acceptance And Love Worst Enemy Redeeming Redeeming Qualities

Book:The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir

“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”

Problem Acceptance Social Justice Tyranny Tyrants Stem Rotten Filthy

Author:Dorothy Day

“Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.”

Hard Acceptance

Author:Sarah Dessen

“She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.”

Littles Spiritual Dark Quality Acceptance Flower All Things Passive Mistaken Reticence

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”

Heart Acceptance Duty Honour Sensibility Prudence Resignation Marianne Dashwood

Author:Jane Austen

“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.”

Ifs Trying Reality Together Fighting Lost Can Do Accepting Acceptance Losing Resilience Lawyer Scream Accepting Reality

Author:Elizabeth Edwards

“To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.”

Acceptance Gratitude Simplicity Riches Secure

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)

“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”

Reason Lost Accepting Acceptance Battle Surrender

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

Life Inspirational Looks Mean Inspiration Happiness Decision Perfect Acceptance Positive Perspective Perfection Decided Happy Life Changing Self Respect Imperfection Happy Life Imperfect Being Happy Better Life Positive Life Changing Your Life Most Interesting Rama Being Positive Student Success Single Mom Happiness And Love Feeling Happy Changing My Life Self Happiness Live Life Happy Positive Inspirational Happiness Is A Choice Inspirational Change Looking For Happiness Perfect Happiness Found Happiness Student Motivation Life And Inspirational Happy Things Life Motivation Motivation And Change Life Best Inspirational Imperfect World Student Motivational Inspirational Student Powerful Motivational Simple Happiness Love Life Inspirational Life Is Changing My Life Is Changing Love Life Happiness Happiness Now Inspiring Students Inspiration And Life Life Changing Love Being Happy With Yourself Love And Inspiration Life Love And Happiness Reasons To Be Happy Looking For Inspiration

Author:Gerard Way

“We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.”

World Accepting This World Acceptance Ruthless Stubbornness Gladness Furnaces Ruthlessness

Book:Refusing Heaven

Source: Refusing Heaven

“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.”

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

Inspirational Needs Mean Self Beautiful Compassion Accepting Beauty Self Esteem Self Help Acceptance Self Love Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Positivity Various Caring Self Confidence Accepted Self Worth Esteem Buddhist Being Yourself Self Acceptance Love Yourself Be You Self Care True Self Loving Yourself Loving Life True Beauty Self Compassion Just Be Yourself Accepting Yourself Self Healing Self Esteem And Confidence Lotuses Confidence In Yourself Self Confident Just Being You Acceptance Of Others Inspirations Being Yourself My Self Worth Peace Is Every Step Your Beautiful Just Love Yourself Confidence And Love Love Yourself First Self Loving Love Yourself More Yourself And Love Love And Acceptance Self Worth And Love Compassion For Yourself Great Self Esteem Confidence Love Confidence In Others Inspiring Yourself Love Acceptance Self Inspirational Accepting Love Beauty Inside And Being Yourself And Happy Good Morning Beautiful Becoming Yourself Confident In Yourself

Author:Nhat Hanh

“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.”

Knows Feels Choices Causes Answers Acceptance Wave Chests Swings Within You One Direction Right Choices Pendulums

Book:You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas

Source: You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas

“When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take use all the way.”

Thinking Way Mind Mean Use Acceptance Students Excuse Acknowledge Contradiction No Excuses Fuzzy Seminars

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two. In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Should Two Facts Christ Acceptance Ought Mouths Blessed Cease Who I Am Dirty Behave Reconciliation Soap Eloquent Dirty Words Yes And No

Author:Aldous Huxley

“He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from his home. He'd never been able to trust. He could never give that last small piece - all that was left of his humanity - into someone else's keeping. And now there was Rikki. She let him be whatever he had to be to survive. She didn't ask anything of him. There was no hidden motive. No agenda. Just acceptance. She was different - imperfect, or so she thought - and she knew what it was like to fight to carve out a space for herself. She was willing for him to do thar.”

Giving Humans Children Different Home Able Lasts Humanity Fighting Asks Left Felt Human Beings Space Taken Pieces Acceptance Willing Safe Motive Agendas Imperfect Small Pieces

Book:Water Bound

Source: Water Bound

“I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.”

Knows Acceptance Battle Everyday

Book:Water Bound

Source: Water Bound

“I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself.”

People Firsts Helping Feelings Care Social Opinion Acceptance Taught Diversity First Time Accepted Helping Others Truthful Living My Life Outcast Being Truthful Social Outcast

Book:Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

“Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it”

Past Time Acceptance Letting Go Your Past

Author:T. S. Eliot

“No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the paradox that one can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.”

World May Matter Whole Humanity Term Acceptance Responsible Paradox Our Relationship Small Parts Partiality

Book:The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“It will come with a rush and a roar and a shudder. It will come howling and laughing and shrieking and moaning. It will come so fast you can’t help yourself you will stretch out your arms to embrace it. You will feel it before it comes and you will tense yourself for acceptance and the earth which is your eternal bed will tremble at the moment of your union.”

Feels Moments Helping Earth Laughing Acceptance Arms Bed Eternal Embrace Unions Tense Help Yourself Moaning

Book:Johnny Got His Gun

Source: Johnny Got His Gun

“Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.”

People Ends Matter Hard Helping Moving Acceptance

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate”

Made Hate Struggle Fate Acceptance Fool Circumstances Resignation

Author:Robin Hobb

“Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.”

May Wisdom Understanding Taken Acceptance Understood

Book:Status Anxiety

Source: Status Anxiety

“You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me.”

Ifs Knows World Eye Acceptance Valuable Accomplish Rejected

Author:Stormie Omartian

“It's not your job to like me - it's mine”

“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”

Ifs Want Life Inspirational Different Happiness Success Growth Change Answers Attitude Acceptance Stress Mindset

Book:You Can If You Think You Can

Source: You Can If You Think You Can

“Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.”

Hard Accepting Acceptance Tolerance Great Things Aspire Good And Bad

Book:What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn't nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt.”

“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”

Ifs Helping Happiness Accepting Acceptance Becoming Capable Smart Treats Addiction Uplifting Life Wisdom

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Hamilton had a complaint. "Why did you have to tell the cops I'm your boyfriend? That's gross, Amy. We're related!" Amy was disgusted. "We had a common ancestor, like, five hundred years ago. Besides, if they think we're together, we only have to come up with one story, and I can do all the talking." "Hey, I got an early acceptance to Notre Dame," Hamilton said defensively. "I can talk." "Of course you can," Amy soothed. "It's what you say that might get us into trouble.”

Source: The Medusa Plot

“I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.”

Acceptance I've Learned Paradox

Book:Warm Bodies: A Novel

Source: Warm Bodies: A Novel

“Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.”

Individual Struggle Childhood Acceptance Emotional Taught Weapons Unique Discovery Endure Illness Mental Illness Taught Us

Author:Alice Miller

“Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to drinking that clear cool glass of love.”

Clear Grace Acceptance Commitment Drinking Glasses Foolish Charm Roadblock

Author:Anne Lamott

“Jacob was hardly in need of any physical protection I could offer. But my arms, pinned beneath Edward's, yearned to reach out to him. To wrap around his big, warm, waist in a silent promise of acceptance and comfort. Edward's shielding arms had become restraints.”

Needs Bigs Acceptance Arms Comfort Promise Offers Silent Warm Protection Reach Out Restraint Wraps Jacob

Book:Eclipse

Source: Eclipse

“I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.”

Half Creativity Acceptance Painting Dozen Plates Shattered

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“His name's Nash." Aunt Val took a butter knife from the silverware drawer. "What year is he?" I groaned inwardly. "Senior." ...here we go ... Her smile was a little too enthusiastic. "Well that's wonderful!" Of course, what she really meant was "Rise from the shadows, social leper, and walk in the bright light of acceptance!”

Source: Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save

“If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.”

Ifs Thinking Week Identity Acceptance Unity Enlightened Farming Family Love

Author:Ram Dass