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Acceptance Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn’t contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.”

Ivan Turgenev

Acceptance, Life, Simplicity, Wisdom, Peace

2. “Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.”

Ivan Turgenev

Resilience, Acceptance, Life Path, Peace, Humility

3. “There was a time when I used to say: ‘I will do many things in life, and refuse to die before I have completed those tasks, for I am a giant.’: but now I have indeed a giant’s task in hand- the task of dying as though death were nothing to me.”

Ivan Turgenev

Mortality, Ambition, Acceptance, Dying, Life’s Meaning

4. “It’s not for man nor beast to get the better of death. Death doesn’t come running, but you can’t run away from it, neither; nor must you be helping it along.”

Ivan Turgenev

Death, Fate, Mortality, Acceptance, Life

5. “We must accept our pain. Change what we can and laugh at the rest.”

Camille Paglia

Pain, Change, Philosophy, Life, Acceptance

6. “The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.”

Camille Paglia

Homosexuality, Society, Acceptance, Nature, Gender

7. “If that’s all he can get, and he takes it, I should say it’s enough.”

J.P. Morgan

Acceptance, Sufficiency, Contentment, Decision, Compromise

8. “It is a waste of time to criticize the inevitable.”

Andrew Carnegie

Wisdom, Acceptance, Time, Perspective, Reality

9. “While we’re living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.”

Guy Kawasaki

Acceptance, Relationships, Influence, Connection, Humility

10. “I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them.”

Guy Kawasaki

Success, Values, Merit, Acceptance, Fairness

11. “We don’t have to fix anything.”

Mitch Hedberg

Fix, Repair, Simplicity, Acceptance, Humor

12. “How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!”

Charles Lamb

13. “Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.”

Margaret Fuller

Life, Worth, Suffering, Hope, Acceptance

14. “It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels...”

Margaret Fuller

Love, Equality, Relationships, Spirituality, Acceptance

15. “You cannot make someone love you by giving them more of something they do not appreciate.”

Ankur Warikoo

Love, Appreciation, Effort, Acceptance, Boundaries

16. “We do not believe most things that we should believe in, simply because they are "too simple".”

Ankur Warikoo

Simplicity, Belief, Acceptance, Wisdom, Clarity

17. “You continuing to live with a mistake isn’t going to fix the mistake. It’s going to make it worse!”

Ankur Warikoo

Mistake, Action, Growth, Acceptance, Change

18. “Courage is possibly the most important quality of all. Courage not so much to win, but courage to be okay even if you don't win!”

Ankur Warikoo

Courage, Resilience, Acceptance, Strength, Mindset

19. “This year, fall in love with yourself. And see yourself for who you truly are.”

Ankur Warikoo

Self-love, Identity, Discovery, Acceptance, Growth

20. “Advice is what we seek when we know the answer, but are scared to accept it.”

Ankur Warikoo

Advice, Fear, Truth, Acceptance, Courage

21. “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.”

Ankur Warikoo

Acceptance, Forgiveness, Peace, Closure, Resilience

22. “Most answers in life are simple. Accepting them is hard!”

Ankur Warikoo

Simplicity, Acceptance, Truth, Clarity, Difficulty

23. “We cannot know the mystery of the future.”

Jimmy Carter

Future, Mystery, Uncertainty, Knowledge, Acceptance

24. “We cannot change the history of the past.”

Jimmy Carter

History, Change, Past, Acceptance, Reality

25. “We cannot change the history of the past. We cannot ignore our gift of the future. We cannot know the mystery of the future.”

Jimmy Carter

History, Future, Mystery, Change, Acceptance

26. “I just look at death as not a threat. It’s inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.”

Jimmy Carter

Death, Faith, Eternal Life, Acceptance, Peace

27. “I forgot my fear. In this way fear, the feeling that everything could at any moment go, became background, a condition of life, something you had to accept.”

V.S. Naipaul

Fear, Acceptance, Life, Reality, Strength