Vincent van Gogh

“I wish they would only take me as I am.”


Harry S Truman

“We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.”


Ayn Rand

“The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.”


Thomas Merton

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.


Joshua Loth Liebman

The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple relatedness.


Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”


John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.”


Carl Gustav Jung

“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”


Carl Gustav Jung

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”


Arthur Gordon

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there’s all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.


André Gide

“Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.”


Mahatma Gandhi

“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.”


Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accept your genius and say what you think.


Albert Camus

“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.”


James Baldwin

“Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.”


Henri Frédéric Amiel

“Accept life, and you must accept regret.”