(1267 quotes found)
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”
William Shakespeare
“Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.”
Robert Frost
“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
William James
“If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ''the quiet acceptance of what is.''”
Wayne Dyer
“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.”
Fulton Oursler
“The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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 complaint.”
William Osler
“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely”
Carl Gustav Jung
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”