Quotes by Acceptance We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation, the Critics (inner or otherwise)-- or the Cross of Christ. All except One will assess your performance. Only One will accept you before your performance ... Only in Jesus is there 100% acceptance before even 1% performance. Ann Voskamp crowds acceptance jesus Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism. Ann Zwinger survival flower acceptance 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. Anna Brackett fate acceptance games I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening. Anne Carson acceptance writing thinking What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out. Anne Hathaway acceptance happens Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. Anne Lamott acceptance running commitment The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again. Anne Lamott uncomfortable-situations acceptance reality Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to drinking that clear cool glass of love. Anne Lamott acceptance drinking commitment Love your self's self where it lives. Anne Sexton acceptance self love I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to look at me the way you look at him, knowing the worst. I want you to trust me, even when your brain tells you you shouldn't, I want you to ignore common sense and your lifelong need to protect yourself. I want you to give yourself to me, body and soul. Anne Stuart knowing acceptance father I feel like decades ago it was either youre black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities. Annie Ilonzeh acceptance white people We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you get it over with, the sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things. Annie Proulx acceptance life children In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause. Anthony de Mello acceptance appreciation people Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations. Anthony Hopkins resentment acceptance expectations Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what? Antoine de Saint-Exupery important acceptance life Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. Antoinette Brown Blackwell nature acceptance men What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"? Antonio Gramsci limits intellectual acceptance Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God himself, can command. It is a free gift or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . The justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of God's inexplicable will, nor our trust in God's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him. Archibald MacLeish acceptance dark love-is Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance Arianna Huffington understanding grace acceptance Acceptance and its counterpart, understanding, are crucial to achieving relationship harmony. It is sacred love, the highest form of love, and like most things worth striving for in life, it requires patience, commitment, personal responsibility, and practice. Arielle Ford responsibility acceptance commitment «1234567891011»