| "acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed." »Peter McWilliams |
| "Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position." »Bertrand Russell |
| "You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance." »Ray Bradbury |
| "Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth." »Jiddu Krishnamurti |
| "acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society." »Richard Royster |
| "Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." »Arthur Rubinstein |
| "acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." »William James |
| "Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth." »Sir Walter Besant |
| "acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth." »Peter McWilliams |
| "I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others." »Jennifer Louden |
| "Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood." »Karen Casey |
| "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." »J. Russel Lynes |
| "Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain." »Leo Buscaglia |
| "acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you're loved, needed, and accepted." »Rena Harmon |
| "Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off" »Henry Miller |
| "If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be." »Peter McWilliams |
| "acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." »Gary Zukav |
| "Total self-esteem requires total and unconditional acceptance of yourself. You are a unique and worthy individual, regardless of your mistakes, defeats and failures, despite what others may think, say or feel about you or your behavior. If you truly accept and love yourself, you won't have a driving need for attention and approval. Self-esteem is a genuine love of self. Stop all adverse value judging of yourself. Stop accepting the adverse value judgments of others. Purge yourself of all condemnation, shame, blame, guilt & remorse." »Unknown |
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