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Acceptance Quotes by Famous Authors

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

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

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

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

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

Camille Paglia

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

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

J.P. Morgan

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

Andrew Carnegie

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

Guy Kawasaki

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

11. “We don’t have to fix anything.”

Mitch Hedberg

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

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

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

Ankur Warikoo

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

Ankur Warikoo

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

Ankur Warikoo

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

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

Ankur Warikoo

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

Ankur Warikoo

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

Ankur Warikoo

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

Ankur Warikoo

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

Jimmy Carter

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

Jimmy Carter

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

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

Jimmy Carter

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

28. “You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.”

V.S. Naipaul

29. “What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.”

V.S. Naipaul

30. “You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.”

Ramakrishna

31. “If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.”

Ramakrishna

32. “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.”

Ramakrishna

33. “You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

34. “We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

35. “When you have a stomach ache you don’t tell your stomach to go away.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

36. “Without suffering, there’s no happiness. So we shouldn’t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

37. “When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

38. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

39. “They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

40. “We have to learn to die in every moment in order to be fully alive.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

41. “Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

42. “You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

43. “It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

44. “When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

45. “Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say “Long live impermanence!””

Thich Nhat Hanh

46. “Be angry, it’s okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

47. “No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

48. “The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

49. “Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

50. “If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

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