1. Proverb - “He who accepts nothing has nothing to return.”

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2. Wilbur Wright - “If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.”

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3. Jean Toomer - “Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.”

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4. John Roger - “When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson.”

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5. John Pierpont - “From every place below the skies The grateful song, the fervent prayer,— The incense of the heart, —may rise To heaven, and find acceptance there.”

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6. William M. Peck - “The acceptance of the truth that joy and sorrow, laughter and tears are not confined to any particular time, place or people, but are universally distributed, should make us more tolerant of and more interested in the lives of others.”

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7. Reinhold Niebuhr - “God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.”

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8. Lao Tzu - “{There are two paths leading to oneness with the Tao.} The first in the path of acceptance. Affirm everyone and everything. Freely extend you goodwill and virtue in every direction, regardless of circumstances. Embrace all things as part of the Harmonious Oneness, and then you will begin to perceive it. The second path is that of denial. Recognize that everything you see and think is a falsehood, an illusion, a veil over the truth. Peel all the veils away, and you will arrive at the Oneness. Though these paths are entirely different, they will deliver you to the same place: spontaneous awareness of the Great Oneness.”

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9. Mary L. Kupferle - “All that we desire, all that we can ever envision or hope to attain is already provided for us; it is already available and will ever be awaiting our acceptance....”

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10. Carl Gustav Jung - “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”

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11. William James - “Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”

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12. Bishop Oliver J. Hart - “Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.”

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13. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - “If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”

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14. John Fowles - “There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.”

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15. Ralph Waldo Emerson - “The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!”

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16. Dick Cavett - “As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.”

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17. Albert Camus - “Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.”

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18. Mrs Patrick Campbell - “When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ‘hush’ just once.”

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19. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”

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20. James Baldwin - “Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.”

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21. Maya Angelou - “The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.”

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22. Aristotle - “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

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23. Reinhold Niebuhr - “O God, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed; courage to change what should be changed, And wisdom to distinguish one from the other.”

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24. James Russell Lowell - “There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.”

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25. Mrs. Patrick Campbell - “When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said 'hush' just once.”

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