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"Accept life, and you must accept regret."
-Henri Frederic Amiel, 1876
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"Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits."
-James Baldwin
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Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have.
-Art Buchwald
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"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
-Albert Camus
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Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.
-Wayne Dyer
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, attributed, no source
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Accept your genius and say what you think.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, attributed, no source
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"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else."
-André Gide, The Fruits of the Earth
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Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
-Arthur Gordon
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"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
-Carl Gustav Jung, Psychological Reflections
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"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."
-Carl Gustav Jung
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"History will never accept difficulties as an excuse."
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Albert W. Daw Collection
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple relatedness.
-Joshua Loth Liebman
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Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.
-Thomas Merton
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I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle, but if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
-Marilyn Monroe
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Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.
-William Osler
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"We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are."
-Harry S Truman
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"I wish they would only take me as I am."
-Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh
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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
-Denis Waitley
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Books about Acceptance
