Radical Acceptance Quotes

Our Favorite Quotes on Radical Acceptance to Support Recovery

Are you on a journey toward radical acceptance of your situation so that you can experience freedom and happiness, regardless of your circumstances? It’s a difficult journey to undertake, but the results from living a messy life with gratitude and acceptance are great. Radical acceptance quotes can help strengthen your resolve.

The quotes found here will help you embrace an intimate moment and your very existence. While it isn’t a cure for breaking old patterns, they can inspire you toward personal growth by shoring up the very foundations of your life.

Changes Healing Center can help you begin thinking in terms of radical acceptance. We have all of the clinical experience you need to find true freedom from mental health hangups that have been holding you back. Keep reading to find our favorite quotes.

Radical Self-Acceptance Quotes to Support Your Moment-to-Moment Experience

One of the most important tools of your therapeutic treatment is radical acceptance that allows you to feel your feelings without judgment. However, this isn’t as easy as it sounds. Here are a few quotes that can support you along the way to finding your own inner peace.

If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance. -Tara Brach

The world shrinks when you remain tight with who you used to be and what you felt. As author Tara Brach put it in her book on radical acceptance, it creates a trance that can be broken only with this novel approach to embracing your true freedom.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. – Carl Jung

One of the hardest things you’ll ever have to do is fully accept yourself with the entire imperfect list of things you wish to change.

Once you get a sweet taste of the freedom that comes with acceptance of yourself, you’ll never want to go back to living any other way.

We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small. – Tara Brach

This quote is a reminder of all that’s possible when you take the path toward radical acceptance. You can feel more fully yourself and in touch with your loved ones when you no longer have to play small, tuning into the critics in your mind.

Briefly, unconditional acceptance means liking yourself, others, and the world when you are not getting what you want and in spite of your getting what you don’t want. -Albert Ellis

When you want permanent satisfaction, you have to like yourself and the people around you, even when things aren’t going your way. This is the first step toward accepting your inner moods and the essential goodness of your life and those around you.

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns. -Tara Brach

Deep healing begins when we acknowledge the truth of what’s out there and what’s possible for us. The first step toward discovering freedom for yourself is to break the patterns of what has historically limited you. Breaking those patterns is essential.

The medicine for shame is radical compassion, the loving presence that helps us trust our belonging and essential goodness. -Tara Brach

Shame is an immediate threat to your sense of happiness and well-being. Unfortunately, there’s only one way to conquer those feelings of shame, and that is through the act of self-compassion. You must believe that you belong and that you have something essentially good about you to embrace your life as it is.

It wasn’t until I accepted myself, just as I was, that I was free to change. -Carl Rogers

You might crave change in your life right now, but the only way you’re going to find it is if you’re able to accept who you are right now, in this moment-to-moment experience.

Tune into what’s happening inside, and you’ll no longer function based on shame and negative feelings.

Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain. -Tara Brach

Pain can be a powerful ally in helping you grow and change. If you’re continually driven to react to pain as if it’s wrong and shouldn’t be there, you’ll never stop striving to erase it. Instead, you must embrace pain in order to combat it and find your truest self.

Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing. -Tara Brach

Your brain works overtime trying to correct and mediate any imperfections in your life, but it’s an effort that’s truly wasted. Everyone has imperfections for their heart and mind to focus on, but you need to accept that part of your life to stop playing small. Everyone has them, so embrace yours now.

We can’t hold on to anything — a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self — because all things come and go. -Tara Brach

One of the most important things you can do for yourself is acknowledge that everything in your life right now will eventually fade to black. Everything is changing at all times, creating a natural ebb and flow to your life. Radical acceptance teaches you to embrace them now and let them go with loose hands later.

The truth is: belonging starts with self-acceptance. -Brené Brown

Brené Brown is a leading researcher on shame, and this quote reminds us how we can feel authentic and experience a sense of belonging. It all starts with accepting ourselves with all our thoughts and feelings. Only once you can embrace your own mind and experiences can you find belonging with others.

Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. -Tara Brach

This message is at the heart of radical acceptance: keep an open heart and mind regardless of what situation may surround you at any given time.

When your heart is open and you can embrace things from a place of loving-kindness, you’ll have the willingness to look beyond a negative circumstance.

Find Support for Self-Compassion at Changes Healing Center

Embracing life with radical acceptance is a revolutionary act that shakes the foundations of life as you know it. Instead of spending energy defending your choices, you can simply accept what is and move on.

Changes Healing Center can help you embrace this new way of thinking.

Our experienced clinicians will work with you to embrace the mindset of radical acceptance in both residential and outpatient settings. Our enrollment team is ready and waiting to answer all of your questions about our programs and verify your insurance benefits now!