Live Your Life with 15 Acceptance Quotes

Happiness can exist only in acceptance

1. Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation, then deciding what you're going to do about it. -Kathleen Casey Theisen 

 2. Happiness can exist only in acceptance. -George Orwell 

3. 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 

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

5. Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. - J.K. Rowling 

6. My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. -Michael J. Fox 

7. Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance. -Deepak Chopra 

8. Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo 

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

10. Let us learn to accept ourselves--accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare, that mediocrity is a portion of almost all of us, but that we can contribute from the storehouse of our skills to the enrichment of our common life. -Joshua Liebman 

11. Acceptance is a letting-go process. You let go of your wishes and demands that life can be different. It's a conscious choice. -Gary Emery 

12. Of course there is no formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. - Artur Rubinstein 

13. Acceptance is observation of life and suspension of judgment about whether what is happening is good or bad, right or wrong. Ron Smotherman 

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

15. A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself. -Adyashanti