Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.
The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Self-acceptance isn’t giving up on self-improvement. It’s deciding to stop beating yourself up for being human — and keep working to become a better human. Getting comfortable in your own skin doesn’t stifle growth. When you can laugh at your faults, it’s easier to overcome them.
Acceptance is serenity.
Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.
Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.
Face the demands of life voluntarily. Respond to a challenge, instead of bracing for a catastrophe.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
When you learn to accept fear, you cease making a catastrophe of it. Then it ceases to be your master.
I found myself praying: May I love and accept myself just as I am.
Radical acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness.
Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
When the resistance is gone, so are the demons.