Quotes about Acceptance
He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
— Anonymous
Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
— Francis de Sales
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all, accept these things.
— Albert Camus
To love others, we must first learn to love ourselves.
— Anonymous
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
— Margaret Mead
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
— George Bernard Shaw
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Remember, if God had wanted this to be perfect, he never would have had me up here.
— Anonymous
Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Today, well lived, will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.
— Anonymous