We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don’t. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
That is the definition of faith – acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Just knowing you don’t have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn – and those are all good things.
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.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.
Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.