Accept, then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. – Eckhart Tolle
We all want to be accepted, but in the end it is the truly original that are remembered. – Mary Moquin
Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.- Julia Cameron
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never go. – Unknown
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. – Malcolm S. Forbes
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. – Rumi
Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it. – Ann Landers
For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Die while alive and be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, and all will be well. – Philip Kapleau
I am dead, but it’s not so bad. I’ve learned to live with it. – Isaac Marion
I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change. – Shannon L. Alder
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. – Mark Twain
In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.- Althea Gibson
Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not. – Valery Satterwhite
Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on. – Charlaine Harris
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. – Lucille Ball
Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better; it just means that my way of living life on life’s terms improves. – Sharon E. Rainey
Laugh at yourself, not with ridicule but with objectivity and acceptance of self. – C. W. Metcalf
When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened. – Shannon L. Alder
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest. – Paul Cezanne
Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.- Rasheed Ogunlaru
Nobody’s going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can’t always be in the fast lane. – Haruki Murakami
When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ”achieve” or feel insecure if people tune in to you and what you are doing. Ken S. Keyes Jr.
The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Alan Watts
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. – Carl Rogers
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell. I’ll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.- Sylvia Plath
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. – John Dewey
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.- Maxwell Maltz
Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation. – Amy Leigh Mercree
Accepting the unacceptable is the hardest lesson to learn and the most important to achieve inner peace. – Char Wilson
Acceptance is a letting-go process. You let go of your wishes and demands that life can be different. It’s a conscious choice. – Gary Emery
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. – Maria Robinson
If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. – Mary Engelbreit
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. – George Orwell
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. – Lynn Hall
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. – Albert Einstein
Acceptance is observation of life and suspension of judgment about whether what is happening is good or bad, right or wrong. – Ron Smotherman
Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have. – Art Buchwald
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. – Albert Einstein
Accept everything about yourself, I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end,no apologies, no regrets. – Clark Moustakas
Everything begins with accepting oneself. Without self-acceptance, one cannot accomplish anything.- Xuan-Thu Nguyen
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. – Katherine Mansfield
