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Acceptance
Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image. - Nido QubeinSelf-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. - J. Donald WaltersThe simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance. - Frederick DouglassThe survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions. - Dave E. SmalleyYou will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, in pain, experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain and learn to accept it, not as a curse or a punishment but as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose. - Elisabeth Kubler-RossI'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else. - Dolly PartonChange the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. - Denis WaitleyIt is funny about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it. - W. Somerset MaughamThe happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize on it when it comes along. - H. Bertram LewisNo matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work. - Mother TeresaOne who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. - SophoclesThere are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. - Denis WaitleySelf-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people. - Brian TracyYour own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life. - Brian TracyWhen you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. - Brian TracyNo amount of self-improvement can make up for a lack of self-acceptance. - Robert HoldenEach player must accept the cards life deals him or her. But once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. - VoltaireAccept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. - George PattonAnything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it. - Shakti GawainSelf-acceptance means self-discovery. - Richard PerryThe Triple-A formula for experiencing happiness begins by accepting the moment, appreciating it, and adapting to its opportunities. - AnonymousReal confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself -- your strengths and your limitations -- in contrast to depending on affirmation from others. - Judith M. BardwickOne must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world--making the most of one's best. - Harry Emerson FosdickAccept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood. -- Brian TracyGrowth begins when we start to accept our own weakness. -- Jean VanierTo accept one's past; one's history is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. -- James BaldwinTo accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections. -- Sandra BierigYou must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are...your simple presence can make others happy. -- Jane Roberts