Eating Disorder Recovery Quotes: Acceptance

Understanding is the first step to acceptance,
and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
~Joanne Kathleen Rowling

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
~Denis Waitley

Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, or condoning. I can accept what is—and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.
~Nathaniel Branden

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
~Carl Jung

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
~T.S. Eliot

We must accept life for what it actually is -- a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
~Ida R. Wylie

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.
~Kathleen Casey Theisen

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
~Albert Einstein

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~Joan Didion

The greatest success, is successful self acceptance.
~Ben Sweet

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.
~Goldie Hawn

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
~Jessica Lange

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
~George Orwell

Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets.
~Henry Kissinger

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
~Peace Pilgrim

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.
~Arthur Gordon

Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
~Saint Francis of Assisi

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is - and rise above it.
~Michael Korda

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
~Fulton Oursler

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

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
~ William James

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

That is the definition of faith ~ acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
~ Dan Brown

One 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 Fosdick

Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquility -- instead of anger and resentment.
- Unknown

Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does!
~ Richard Exely

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
~Nathaniel Branden

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

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
~ Denis De Rougamont

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
~ Sally Field

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.
~ Dr. Robert Anthony.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
~Unknown

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk.
~ Rosalynn Smith Carter

Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.
~Unknown

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.
~Dr. Paul Tournier

The fruit of self-understanding is self acceptance. The fruit of self acceptance is self-love.
~Russell Rowe

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
~Dolly Parton

Where you are and what you are right now has to be made right, even if you don’t like it that much. Nevertheless, it is you. By criticizing and negating the current circumstances, what you are saying is that you are not okay. What is around you is only an extension of who you are. Look at those things and realize that they are what they are, imperfect though they may be. By accepting the truth, you propel yourself into better circumstances. By resisting, you live in the constant negativity of your own dissatisfaction.
~Stuart Wilde

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
~Mark Twain

Self 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 Walters

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.
~Wayne Dyer

When you're a beautiful person on the inside, there is nothing in the world that can change that about you. Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance. The Lesson: If you can't accept yourself, then certainly no one else will.
~Sasha Azevedo

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
~Robert Frost

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.
~Bonaro W. Overstreet

My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge.
~Franki

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
~Mark Twain

Self-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 Walters

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