Top 100 Quotes About Accepting That
#1. A big part of being a well-adjusted person is accepting that you can't be good at everything.
Kelly Williams Brown
#2. We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
John Fowles
#3. Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.
Madeleine L'Engle
#4. If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.
Sarah Dessen
#5. I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.
Tony Abbott
#6. Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.
Madeleine L'Engle
#7. Well, by accepting that sex is a physical manifestation of God, and that is not a sin-it is a blessing.
Paulo Coelho
#8. Studies show that neurotic and psychiatric disorders are more common among those who attempt to keep conscious control of life and suppress its unwelcome quirks. Sanity, paradoxically, may lie in accepting that you are not in control.
Michael Brooks
#9. In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.
Pele
#10. You need other people, Madeline. There's a great freedom in knowing that. And accepting that. And letting people in. Letting them help you.
Blake Nelson
#11. We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.
Phillip E. Johnson
#12. We accept gods that don't speak to us. We accept gods that would place us in a world filled with injustices and do nothing as we struggle. It's easier than accepting that there's nothing out there at all, and that, in our darkest moments, we are truly alone.
Lauren DeStefano
#13. Part of learning to count my blessings is accepting that many of them I would not have chosen if
Janette Oke
#14. Accepting that Arabs have the right to elect their own leaders means accepting the rise of governments that do not share America's pro-Israel militancy.
Stephen Kinzer
#15. The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural and linguistic heritage that can enrich his parent's life as it will his own.
Harlan Lane
#16. My greatest obstacle has to be accepting that the business that I chose to be part of is based on rejection and constantly trying to prove yourself. Letting go of seeing my accent and the way I speak as a limitation. Accepting it as who I am and where I came from.
Roselyn Sanchez
#17. How can such impoverished children laugh? How can prisoners sing with joy? They rise above by accepting that certain events are beyond their control and beyond their understanding too, and then focusing instead on what they can understand and control.
Nick Vujicic
#18. How do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? The honest answer is this: You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience.
Jon Stewart
#19. I might have a little bit of cellulite. I might not be toned everywhere. I might struggle in this area or that. But accepting that just empowers me.
Kim Kardashian
#20. In accepting that suffering is a part of your daily existence, you could begin by examining the factors that normally give rise of feelings of discontent and mental unhappiness.
Dalai Lama XIV
#21. Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
Gregory Maguire
#22. Just accepting that vulnerability is part of the deal, I think, makes that part okay.
Pegi Young
#23. The distance between losing someone and accepting that they are gone is of course the very essence of grieving,
Marie Mutsuki Mockett
#24. I reached for Helen's hand, and felt her squeeze back, accepting that I would understand more than most the missing part of the human heart rendered by the absence of a mother and father.
Karen White
#25. The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.
Mark Nepo
#26. Nobody enjoys accepting that they have reaped what they have sown.
Robert Galbraith
#27. Accepting that a person will die and shucking off any aversion to this blunt thought awakens the mind to realize what is possible in a human life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#28. Merely accepting that we are lazy, distracted, petty, easily provoked to anger, and inclined to waste our time in ways that we will later regret is not a path to happiness.
Sam Harris
#29. Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.
Robert Baker Aitken
#30. I've learned that things change, people change, and it doesn't mean you forget the past or try to cover it up. It simply means that you move on and treasure the memories. Letting go doesn't mean giving up ... it means accepting that some things weren't meant to be.
Lisa Brooks
#31. It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.
John Green
#32. Successful investors must temper the arrogance of taking a stand with a large dose of humility, accepting that despite their efforts and care, they may in fact be wrong.
Seth Klarman
#33. It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult.
I took some time out for life.
James L. Brooks
#34. Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.
Jennifer Garner
#35. Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.[17
Charlie Brooker
#36. Maybe this was the only way it could have gone. You didn't get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do. That was the hard part, accepting that you didn't get to choose which way you went.
Lev Grossman
#37. If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.
Mikaela Shiffrin
#38. Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.
Julian Baggini
#39. Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture, everywhere. It's just accepting that we don't know everything and everything is possible.
Isabel Allende
#40. Cats never feel threatened. They are genetically incapable of accepting that anyone could possibly dislike anything as perfect as a cat.
Kathy Young
#41. I realize that I will either allow my view of evil to determine my view of God and will cut him down accordingly, or I will allow my view of God to determine my view of the evil and will elevate him accordingly, accepting that nothing is beyond his power for good.
Dallas Willard
#42. People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference between me knowing that people swear, me hearing people swear and me swearing, and everyone accepting that this is something you can do as much as you like.
Steven Pinker
#44. [ ... ] death follows us around for a reason. It's because death is our best adviser. There is nothing more powerful than a person who is prepared to live right now, in this instant, fully accepting that this may be their last moment on earth.
A.C. Ping
#45. If you had no language, then what form did your thoughts take - if you thought at all? Of course you thought - she had never had any difficulty with accepting that - but how limited would your thoughts be in the absence of any words to express them?
Alexander McCall Smith
#46. It isn't easy looking in the mirror and accepting that you were missing some element, some thing that kept a person you wanted from loving you.
Nora Roberts
#47. I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.
Kimberly Elise
#48. I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it ... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.
Anne Ford
#49. Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.
Jay Samit
#50. An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.
Derek R. Audette
#51. Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me.
Danielle Cormack
#52. You can't believe that AIDS is a curse from God against Gays without accepting that Lyme Disease is a curse from the same God against Deer Hunters ...
T. Rafael Cimino
#53. Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.
Benjamin Zander
#54. In my opinion, it seems like music is taking a bit of a turn. Look at Mumford and Sons, and the Lumineers. It seems like people and music fans are enjoying the more artistic side of music, and that popular music is taking a turn and accepting that, so I appreciate that.
Phillip Phillips
#55. Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.
Gary Zukav
#56. If I stopped running and stood still, I would be accepting that what I had was all I would ever have. And then I would no longer be lost, because there would nowhere else to go
Amy Tan
#57. Letting things go doesn't mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be
N.a.
#58. Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.
Eckhart Tolle
#59. The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet.
J. Raymond
#60. You cannot expect people to seriously consider your idea without accepting the possibility that they will challenge it. Accepting that process of engagement as the terrain of leadership liberates you personally.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#61. Climbing is my lifelong journey. And in the same way you go running and you have days where you really feel in tune, you have some days where you don't feel that good. It's this never-ending process. Accepting that and enjoying that for what it is, that's really where the life of climbing is.
Chris Sharma
#62. Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.
John Katzman
#63. Becoming an adult is all about accepting that you didn't know anything when you were a kid.
Andrew Sturm
#64. If we have to prove our Europeanism by accepting that French is the dominant language in the Community, then my answer is quite clear, and I will say it in French in order to prevent any misunderstanding: Non, merci beaucoup .
James Callaghan
#65. The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.
Dennis Eckersley
#66. Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.
Ziauddin Sardar
#67. Love is always dangerous. To love is to hope you'll win it all while running the risk that you could lose it all. And sometimes it's also about accepting that there's a risk that you'll love more than you are loved.
Guillaume Musso
#68. You like to assign roles to the people in your life. And when they don't play their parts right, you have a hard time accepting that.
Kasie West
#69. I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.
Mariel Hemingway
#70. The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.
Faraaz Kazi
#71. And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
Vince Cable
#72. As we settle together, spiraling down from bliss, I land in a space of clarity. I stop worrying if it's going to be Alayna that falls apart from this affair and start accepting that it's going to be me.
Laurelin Paige
#73. He offered me a ride up from the abyss and I took it. But a ride with the devil is never free. And accepting that ride can only lead to hell.
S.D. Skye
#74. The key to a successful marriage is accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words Yes, dear. Whatever you want.
Patrick Dempsey
#75. But people normally marry, and then they want that locked in time, so they think they're not going to change. We're going to change. Everybody's going to change. So accepting that changes are part of our lives makes marriage a blessing and not a curse, because love is stronger than anything else.
Paulo Coelho
#76. Accepting that your imperfections and so-called negative attributes are part of what makes you unique will help you to stop continually trying to be someone or something that you are not.
Beverly Engel
#77. It's not a switch you can just flip off", Dr. Marshall had told me once. "If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love-and everything that followed is part of letting it go.
Sarah Dessen
#78. Still, as I have said, accepting that God loved me was something I did only on the level of theory.
Rod Dreher
#79. Rachel could not believe what she was hearing. Accepting that her magic worked was a huge step, yet she was speaking to the evidence. But to be offered the power to rule the world? She wasn't sure her career in exercise instruction had prepared her for this.
Christopher Moore
#80. Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed - now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down ...
Brian Aldiss
#81. One of the greatest challenge in life is not having an attitude but knowing or accepting that you have one
Ikechukwu Izuakor
#82. It's so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that there are no props or costumes or furniture, so the performers can be anywhere doing anything; cut from underground to space, and it doesn't matter.
Andy Daly
#83. The argument starts by accepting that the American government will continue to spend a huge amount of money on income transfers. It then contends that we should take all of that money and give it back to the American people in cash grants. The
Charles Murray
#84. Faith is accepting that everything, including who you are, develops in its perfect order.
Lisa A. Mininni
#85. What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?
Alan Cohen
#86. Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.
Franz Kafka
#87. Compassion basically means accepting people's frailties, their weaknesses, not expecting them to behave like gods. That expectation is cruelty.
Osho
#88. When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that's why you love them.
Patrick Modiano
#89. Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
Ashley Judd
#90. Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him ... I refuse to accept that.
Cornel West
#91. Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'
Manny Pacquiao
#92. It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had,
Tracee Ellis Ross
#93. I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.
Paula Cole
#94. The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.
David Platt
#95. It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love.
Pope Benedict XVI
#96. Pritkin kissed like he did everything else, straightforward, accepting no prisoners and with an intensity that left me breathless. It was hot and hard and desperate, like he was starving for it, and I opened my mouth and took it, because, God.
Karen Chance
#97. Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue.
Paul Fry
#98. My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.
Benjamin Disraeli
#99. A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.
Whittaker Chambers
#100. The latest indication we have is that Amado is experiencing some delay in getting his visa. We understand that and we can accept that as a plausible reason for him not to be here.
Alexi Lalas
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