Acceptance is such an important commodity,
some have called it "the first law of personal growth."
-Peter McWilliams

The Rule of Acceptance:
Everything has its purpose and its own time.
-Michael Garrett

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you,
the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything is acceptable as it is and how it is in existence.
There is not the slightest desire in nature for it to be otherwise.
-Ormond McGill

Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today...
I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation
as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
-Alcoholics Anonymous

Anything in life that we don't accept
will simply make trouble for us
until we make peace with it.
-Shakti Gawain

Acceptance is a letting go process.
You let go of your wishes and demands that life can be different.
-Gary Emery

True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.
-Gerald Jampolsky

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it,
than to accept life unquestioningly.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from,
everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
What seems nasty, painful, evil,
can become a source of beauty, joy and strength if faced with an open mind.
-Henry Miller

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation;
it does not mean running away from the struggle.
On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes,
with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering,
of psychological complexes and injustices.
-Paul Tournier

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation;
it means understanding that something is what it is
and that there's got to be a way through it.
-Michael J. Fox

Resignation happens with your head down.
Acceptance happens with your head up.
-Cheri Huber

Acceptance is not submission;
it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation.
Then deciding what you're going to do about it.
-Kathleen Casey Theisen

We must take situations as they are.
We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil
for the seeds of change.
-Steve Maraboli

Almost any event will put on a new face
when received with cheerful acceptance.
-Henry S. Haskins

With acceptance there is change
-The Oculatum

Everything in life that we really accept
undergoes a change.
-Katherine Mansfield

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung

Acceptance of what has happened
is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
-William James

You may accept the inevitable
with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace.
Mere acceptance is not sufficient.
-Paul Brunton

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance,
not in the atmosphere of rejection.
-John Powell

Nothing brings down walls
as surely as acceptance.
-Deepak Chopra

Complete acceptance does not mean subordination
nor does it mean blinding oneself to the weaknesses or defects of the other.
If it did, it would not be acceptance: we must accept with our eyes open.
This acceptance is a real discipline,
and like the will of which it is a manifestation, it is only acquired gradually.
-John G. Bennett

What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely.
When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.
-Haruki Murakami

If a man and woman are able to accept one another totally,
they are very close to being able to accept all other people as well.
-John G. Bennett

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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,
to refrain from tampering with another's way of life -
so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit.
Hands off!
-Henry Miller

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept.
Take what is given, and make it over your way.
My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going.
Not against: with.
-Robert Frost

I do not confer praise or blame:
I accept.
-W. Somerset Maugham

Acceptance is not passivity,
but non-positionality.
-David R. Hawkins

Acceptance is never passive.
It is a creative act, in which renunciation and sublimation merge.
-Olga Ilyin

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness;
the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.
-Rabindranath Tagore

Heaven is acceptance of what is.

-David K. Reynolds