No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

It is so much easier sometimes to sit down and be resigned than to rise up and be indignant.

I think it’s important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it… it’s just easier if you do.

Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject me because I am not good enough and that any community that has His heart will embrace me as I am. Jesus invites us into a community where imperfect people can find acceptance, love, forgiveness, and a new beginning.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don’t hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people’s cards.

You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. When we don’t have that, we shape-shift and turn into chameleons; we hustle for the worthiness we already possess.

Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there’s just extraordinary beauty.

I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.

Peace cannot come by legislation or through affiliation with any political philosophy…Peace, joy, and happiness can come only through an acceptance of God’s revealed plan of life.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.