The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.

By turning your attention to what you already possess, what is already here, and who you already are, you will be able to replace your "not enough" attitude with a sense of acceptance, satisfaction, and contentment.

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

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

As they become known to and accepted by us, our feelings and the honest exploration of them become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas.

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