Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Acceptance Quotes
AcceptanceFamilyHumorResilience If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
AcceptanceEmotional DepthEqualityLoveRelationships We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
AcceptanceAgingEmbracing Change I don't have a problem with ageing - in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily... it doesn't faze me at all.
AcceptanceFamilyInclusivityUnderstanding I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
AcceptanceAlignmentRealitySurrenderWisdom Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
AcceptanceCollaborationControlInner Conflict My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
AcceptanceCommunityGod S PlanMotherhood I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.
AcceptanceCommunityHumilityResponsibilityVolunteerism Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
AcceptanceEgoInspirationRespectValidation I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs - that's where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that's very cool.
AcceptanceAuthenticityPerceptionReality A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
AcceptanceRealityTruthWisdom For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
AcceptanceApprovalPerfectionism Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.
AcceptanceMortalityPeaceResilience I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
AcceptanceIntentional ChoicesPersonal ResponsibilityPresence Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
AcceptanceAgingHealth ChallengesResilienceWisdom When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.
AcceptanceCourageResilience First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
AcceptanceLovePresence To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
AcceptanceMindfulnessPurposeSelf-DiscoveryWisdom What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
AcceptanceDiversityFaithGod God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
AcceptanceDeathFearPerspective The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
AcceptancePerseveranceReflectionResilienceSelf-awareness I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.
AcceptanceContentmentEnjoymentHappinessMindfulness If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
AcceptanceLetting GoPrioritizationSelf-awareness I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.
