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Acceptance Quotes & Sayings

These famous acceptance quotes and acceptance sayings from our inspirational words of wisdom collection.
Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. - William James 'Will' Durant


The solution for me, surely, is neither in total renunciation of the world, nor in total acceptance of it. I must find a balance somewhere, or an alternating rhythm between these two extremes; a swinging of the pendulum between solitude and communion, between retreat and return. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known. - Madeleine L'Engle


The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. - Frederick Childe Hassam


I greet thy love, Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous. [Othello] - William Shakespeare


Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No. - Harold Wilson


Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. - Phyllis McGinley


If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is.' - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer


Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments. - Rainer Maria Rilke

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