Acceptance is about understanding. One has to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
Acceptance is at root a matter (a quite difficult matter for an active spirit) of refraining from giving advice, refraining from meddling in the affairs of others, refraining even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life-so simple.

What kind of tea is hard to swallow?Reality

Walmart has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard University.
I just want people to accept me for who I pretend to be.
Acceptance is stultifying. To accept someone as they are is to make them worse, while to treat them as though they are what they are capable of becoming, is to help them become that.

Acceptance is a jumping off point, not an endpoint — take life as you find it, but don't leave it so.

Acceptance is taking this stand: whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need'.