Top 200 Acceptance Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as they are.”

— Tara Brach

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2. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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3. “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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4. “Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

— Lao Tzu

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5. “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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6. “Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.”

— Osho

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7. “Wherever you are, be there totally.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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8. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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9. “You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”

— Brené Brown

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10. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

— Nelson Mandela

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11. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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12. “Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”

— Rumi

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13. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

— Virginia Woolf

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14. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”

— Maya Angelou

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15. “Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”

— Cheryl Strayed

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16. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

— Emma Lazarus

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17. “If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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18. “Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.”

— Brené Brown

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19. “Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.”

— Brené Brown

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20. “I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”

— Brené Brown

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21. “Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”

— Brené Brown

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22. “It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.”

— Nhat Hanh

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23. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

— Laozi

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24. “I’m beautiful in my way ’cause God makes no mistakes. I’m on the right track baby, I was born this way.”

— Lady Gaga

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25. “Don’t seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.”

— Epictetus

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26. “I like you just the way you are.”

— Fred Rogers

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27. “Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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28. “Acceptance is the only way out of hell.”

— Marsha M. Linehan

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29. “Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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30. “Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.”

— Brené Brown

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31. “The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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32. “Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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33. “God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.”

— Brennan Manning

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34. “When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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35. “Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.”

— Epictetus

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36. “You can’t hate yourself happy, You can’t criticize yourself thin, You can’t shame yourself wealthy. Real change begins with self-love and self care.”

— Jessica Ortner

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37. “Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can’t argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Mindfulness Quotes

38. “Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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39. “Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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40. “Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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41. “Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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42. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”

— Steve Jobs

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43. “People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”

— Mother Teresa

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44. “Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.”

— Muhammad Ali

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45. “Accept everything just the way it is.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

46. “Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.”

— Caroline Myss

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

— C.G. Jung

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48. “Whatever comes, let it come. What stays, let it stay. What goes, let it go.”

— H. W. L. Poonja

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49. “I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”

— Johnny Depp

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50. “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”

— George R.R. Martin

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