35 inspirational Quotes on Acceptance of Self and Others

Learning to accept what is most difficult, can be one of the most trying learning experiences of our lives. However, if we can learn what it means to be accepting, to let things go and move forward, we could find peace, and a huge weight lifted off of us. This is one of the greatest gifts we can give to ourselves.

Here are a few quotes on acceptance to inspire you to find your own peace for yourself;

1.) “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” –Mark Twain

2.) “Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.” -Michael J. Fox

3.) “The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”– Martin Luther King, Jr.

4.) “Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”- Ann Landers

5.) “Die while alive and be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, and all will be well.” -Philip Kapleau

6.) “I am Dead, but it’s not so bad. I’ve learned to live with it.” -Isaac Marion

7.) “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” -Shannon L. Alder

8.) “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” –Lucille Ball

9.) “Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.”-D.B. Harrop

10.) “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” – Dalai Lama XIV

11.) “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

12.) “It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.” -Robert E. Lee

13.) “Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better; it just means that my way of living life on life’s terms improves.” – Sharon E. Rainey

14.) “When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.” -Shannon L. Alder

15.) “Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.” – Eckhart Tolle

16.) “Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru

17.) “Nobody’s going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can’t always be in the fast lane.” – Haruki Murakami

18.) “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” -Alan Watts

19.) “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin

20.) “I’m not okay, you’re not okay, and that’s okay.” – William Sloane Coffin

21.) “When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” – Peace Pilgrim

22.) “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” – Lao Tzu

23.) “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” – Melody Beattie

24.) “A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” – George Eliot

25.) “When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” – Peace Pilgrim

26.) “Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.” – Paul Tournier

27.) “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself—and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.” – Jim Morrison

28.) “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” – Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

29.) “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul

30.) “Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.” – William James

31.) “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” – George Orwell

32.) “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

33.) “As you become clearer about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.” – Oprah Winfrey

34.) “No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.” – Fernando Pessoa

35.) “The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.” – Sting