Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.
To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.
Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.
In my whole career, all I wanted was acceptance from Kid Cudi. I don't care about nothing else! This dude saved my life.
We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.
Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
