Acceptance Quotes

"To love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
...
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again."

If you truly love someone accept their past and leave it there.

My philosophy is this: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

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.

He never judged me, never tried to fix me. His acceptance was a gift that I will spend my whole life trying to deserve.

The truth is everybody changes every day, and some things are more devastating than others, but we never are the same. And there are two ways to deal with these changes, you either accept them, or you fight them like hell all the way.

When you love someone, you love all of them... you gotta love everything about them, not just the good things but the bad things too. The things that you find lovable and the things you don't.

"Again, the person who is filled with the Spirit tolerates those who differ from them in opinion, in doctrine. They are firm in their own convictions, and ready at all times with meekness and fear to explain and defend the doctrines which they hold and are convinced are according to God's Word, but they do not condemn and consign to damnation all those who differ from them."

If life gives you lemons don’t make lemonade, make life take the lemons back. Get mad, I don’t want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give you lemons.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Change only comes after acceptance

Life's as kind as you let it be.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." That's one of my favorite things to say. "So what."

Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.

If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you get it more often.

Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

What passes for sanity is an agreed-on form of insanity....

Diversity is the spice of life, and acceptance is the glue.

The greatest thrill is I get these 14-year-old kids coming up to me vibrating out of their bodies saying how happy Glee makes them.