~ Our entire life consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. ~
~ Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you're loved, needed, and accepted. ~
~ We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ~
~ Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. ~
~ Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance. ~
~ Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it. ~
~ Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. ~
~ We must accept life for what it actually is -- a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. ~
~ Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. ~
~ You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. ~
~ Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits. ~
~ Listening is a form of accepting. ~