“Getting older… mostly it entails accepting the unacceptable.”

“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.”

Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher

“Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.”

Jennifer Fallon (1959) author

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”

Denis Waitley (1933) American writer

“With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.”

Steve Martin book The Pleasure of My Company

“If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.”

Daniel Kahneman (1934) Israeli-American psychologist

“"That's the way it is" is unacceptable. If I'd accepted that mentality I'd never be where I am today. Expect something better. Fight for it.”

Kambri Crews (1971) American storyteller

“We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.”

Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker

“Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.”

Walter Brueggemann (1933) American theologian