Acceptance Quotes

"Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie."

Miyamoto Musashi

"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."

Jodi Picoult

"The more one judges, the less one loves."

Honoré de Balzac

"So it goes."

Kurt Vonnegut

"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences."

Dave Meurer

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."

Wayne W. Dyer

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

Viktor E. Frankl

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a Line."

Omar Khayyam

"The struggle ends when the gratitude begins."

Neale Donald Walsch

"The best way to show my gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy."

Mother Teresa

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."

Arthur Rubinstein

"Don't seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will – then your life will flow well."

"My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations."

Michael J. Fox

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."

Elbert Hubbard

"There's no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are."

Fred Rogers

"Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves."

"Never say of anything, 'I have lost it'; but, 'I have returned it.'"

"Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule."

Elizabeth Gilbert

"Acceptance is a small, quiet room."

Cheryl Strayed

"What's gone and what's past help should be past grief."

"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."

Marcel Proust

"Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down."

"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."

Haruki Murakami

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."

Randy Pausch

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."