In the journey of life, acceptance is a powerful tool that allows us to find peace and understanding, even amidst chaos and uncertainty. It is the gentle art of acknowledging what is, embracing imperfections, and finding strength in vulnerability. Whether coping with change, loss, or personal challenges, embracing acceptance can lead to profound personal growth and a deeper appreciation for the present moment. In this collection, we present 74 inspiring quotes that celebrate the essence of acceptance, offering insights and wisdom to help you cultivate a more compassionate and resilient mindset. Let these words guide you towards a life of greater harmony and fulfillment.
1. “A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” - Dinah Maria Craik
2. “For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.” - Gertrude Stein
3. “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.” - Jim Morrison
4. “Hate is a lack of imagination.” - Graham Greene
5. “That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.” - Beth Hoffman
6. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” - Lao Tzu
7. “The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.” - Osho
8. “I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.” - colum mccann
9. “We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.” - Elisabeth Elliot
10. “But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with think, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't. Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein.” - Elizabeth Gilbert
11. “Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.” - Paulo Coelho
12. “Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.” - Sharon E. Rainey
13. “My choice is what I choose to do,And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you.Your choice is who you choose to be,And if you're causin' no harm, then you're alright with me.” - Ben Harper
14. “Let's not hate the existence of hatred.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]
15. “She talked about wanting to be a part of something, wanting to be desired, to be 'special', craving to be loved. She talked about experiencing the kind of loneliness so immense it could swallow you up. She called it 'loneliness that crowds couldn't cure'.” - Cupcake Brown
16. “Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.” - Andy Warhol
17. “The image I'd had of myself as a child was someone I'd never be, and it was only recently that I realized it was okay to be who I was. - Cat” - Jeaniene Frost
18. “Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.” - David Richo
19. “Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.” - Fulton Oursler
20. “IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.” - Laurie Halse Anderson
21. “To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside reality loses meaning. The social reality is a fiction, a beautiful drama; you can participate in it, but then you don’t take it seriously. It is just a role to be played; play it as beautifully, as efficiently, as possible. But don’t take it seriously, it has nothing of the ultimate in it.” - Osho
22. “Let nothing human be foreign to me” - Kate Christensen
23. “Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.” - Deepak Chopra
24. “When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.” - Ashly Lorenzana
25. “If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.” - CHOGYAM TRUNGPA
26. “We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.” - Alain De Botton
27. “What to Accept The fact of mountains. The actualityOf any stone — by kicking, if necessary. The need to ignore stupid people, While restraining one's natural impulseTo murder them. The change from your dollar, Be it no more than a penny, For without a pretense of universal penuryThere can be no honor between rich and poor.Love, unconditionally, or until proven false.The inevitability of cancer and/orHeart disease. The dialogue as written, Once you've taken the role. Failure, Gracefully. Any hospitalityYou're willing to return. The airEach city offers you to breathe.The latest hit. Assistance.All accidents. The end.” - Thomas M. Disch
28. “A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.” - Shannon L. Alder
29. “Life wants each of us to live on the 'A Team' - Wider, ever more intense Acceptance of good in our lives. Wider, ever more intense Awareness of good in our lives. Wider, ever more intense Action for good in our lives.www.upwardjoy.com” - Laura Teresa Marquez
30. “Chiron reminds us that only through recognising and accepting our inner wounds can we find true healing.” - Lisa Tenzin-Dolma
31. “Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.” - Tony Schwartz
32. “What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.” - Joan Miro
33. “Love is a sacrificial item” - Asa Don Brown
34. “Will is… difficult,” Jem said. “But family is difficult. If I didn’t think the Institute was the best place for you, Tessa, I wouldn’t say it was. And one can build one’s own family. I know you feel inhuman, and as if you were set apart, away from life and love, but…” His voice cracked a little, the first time Tessa had heard him sound unsure. He cleared his throat. “I promise you, the right man won’t care.” - Cassandra Clare
35. “Pain and grief have been kept buried for ages, bred in secrecy and shame, wrapped by an ongoing conspiracy of smiles and well-being. Pain and grief are most healing and ecstatic emotions. Yes, sure, they can be hard, yet what makes them most devastating is the perverted idea that they are wrong, that they need to be hidden and fixed. The greatest perversion I can conceive is the idea that illness and pain are a sign that there is something wrong in our life, that we have unresolved issues, that we have made mistakes. In this world everyone is bound to get ill, experience pain and die. The greatest gift I can give to myself and the world is the joyful acceptance of this. Today I want to be real, I will not hide my pain as well as my happiness. I will not care if my gloomy face or desperate words cause concern or embarrassment in others. I do not need be fed with reassuring words about the beauty of life. The beauty of life resides in the full acceptance of All That Is.” - Franco Santoro
36. “Never do anything you'll regret. Never regret anything you do.” - Lea Mishell
37. “In mindfulness, acceptance always comes first, change comes after.” - Shamash Alidina
38. “Nowadays 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.” - Emma Donoghue
39. “Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them.” - Edgar Rice Burroughs
40. “Allow yourself to celebrate your sense of freedom , your capacity to make a choice and your strength in facing the truth. Not everyone has the courage to do so, even if it hurts……Knowing is KEY to acceptance.” - Abby Espiritu
41. “I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I started to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever situation I was in as the way things were, I started to see that my happiness depended on my own attitude. When I started focusing on getting the most out of my life the way it was rather than trying to turn it into what I thought it should be, I started to realize that I was, indeed, becoming a much happier person.” - Tom Walsh
42. “Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.” - Richard Paul Evans
43. “But are the twin souls destined to be together? Synchronicity is at work here to bring the two back together again. How entrancing to find the same magical alchemy still at work, just as it was at the first meeting – a recognition of a deep rooted love so entrenched and so accepted, it could only have been forged in other lifetimes together. And probably that is what love at first sight is, recognition of an ancient love. ” - Chimnese Davids
44. “Is it your background, then?" Lord Franton smiled and shook his head. "That need not worry you. You're a wizard now; what you were before does not matter to me.""Yes, it does," Kim said softly. "Because part of the time you're sorry about it, and part of the time you think it makes me interesting, and part of the time you ignore it. But you never forget it.” - Patricia C. Wrede
45. “Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.” - D.B. Harrop
46. “It’s such an amazing awakening to realize that nothing in this universe happens TO YOU, 100% happens FOR YOU.” - Steve Maraboli
47. “When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.” - Louise Erdrich
48. “There was a lot about my life that was crappy, now that I couldn't talk. But if I hadn't gotten drunk that night, if I hadn't gotten in that accident, would I have ever had this moment? Lying there in the sun, holding Sam's hand like time didn't exist and the real world couldn't touch us? Somehow I didn't think so.” - Keary Taylor
49. “Is it love, or is it attachment? Do you want to love her, or do you want to control her?” - T. Scott McLeod
50. “Why hold secrets? Why harbor anything? Let me just share everything with you. Let me just talk. Let me let go of the censor that is within me ... I’m tired of trying to be someone other than who I am.” - T. Scott McLeod
51. “All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish...and between those who are truly happy and those who are not. Those who are wise - and those who are happy - embrace and appreciate life. Those who are unhappy and unwise do not. That is all; that is the only difference.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru
52. “The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?” - Rasheed Ogunlaru
53. “Shuki’s wisdom: "Sometimes things happen, and the only choice you have is to accept it, and learn to make a life anyway.” - M. A. McRae
54. “Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru
55. “Life happens, whether you're in it or not, but death doesn't give you a choice.” - Anthony Liccione
56. “If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.” - Shinichi Suzuki
57. “Don't question anything too much. Just take things as they happen.” - Sean Kennedy
58. “Some days we lose all at once and somedays we get all back at once. But either way,Accept it.” - Diarian Hersi
59. “What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey pal, nice crazy notion, let's go have a beer. America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamorous reasonable voice.” - George Saunders
60. “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” - Shannon L. Alder
61. “They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303” - Lionel Shriver
62. “If all we ever offer is blanket praise without any meaning behind it, kids will always seek approval because they'll never feel satisfied. If we offer genuine encouragement for their accomplishments, they won't need our approval; they'll approve of themselves.” - Kelly Bartlett
63. “You unlock the door to greater levels of excellence and success when you accept who you are. It is from the point of acceptance that we can create a masterful life.” - Steve Maraboli
64. “Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.” - Anthon St. Maarten
65. “Love heals violence and all its sources” - Bryant McGill
66. “If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve.” - Bryant McGill
67. “Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.” - Bryant McGill
68. “America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving.” - Bryant McGill
69. “Why when people are on their deathbed, they finally come to terms with life?” - Anthony Liccione
70. “You have to accept all sides of yourself – there’s no point fighting them – just learn how to handle them, and return to the positive, balanced being you know you can be, once the winds have blown through.” - jay woodman
71. “Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.” - Bryant McGill
72. “We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.” - Bryant McGill
73. “Love – Acceptance – Unity – Peace –Integrity – Respect… a strong, pure creed is short on words and long on nourishing ideas. For me, the longer the creed the more it has been diluted, manipulated, and spoiled. The results of this creed poisoning can be seen in the behavior of its followers. We have all heard the expression, “The devil is in the details”; my observations have led me to suspect this is true.” - Steve Maraboli
74. “If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.” - Glennon Melton
