Acceptance Quotes

Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

We love the things we love for what they are.

You can't go and anticipate what it is that you want to see. You just have to be present. Be where you are.

People are not here to meet your expectations.

And because I love this lifeI know I shall love death as wellThe child cries out whenFrom the right breast the motherTakes it away, in the very next momentTo find in the left oneIts consolation.

Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP

You must make a daily effort to look upon others without condemnation. Every judgment takes you away from your goal of peace. Your ego loves your judgments, because with them you remain in a constant state of anguish and remorse. Keep in mind that you do not define anyone with your judgment; you only define yourself as someone who needs to be judged.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Be happy without picking flaws.

I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.

We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.

Be content. Know that whatever comes along, you can handle it and grow from it.

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.

You can't really make people be any different than what they are.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.

We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, 'If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?'

The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change.

Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.

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?

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

Be content with an ordinary life.

Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love.

It is not a question of patronizing philanthropy towards disabled people. They do not need the patronage of the non-disabled. It is not for them to adapt to the dominant and dominating world of the so-called non-disabled. It is for us to adapt our understanding of a common humanity; to learn of the richness of how human life is diverse; to recognize the presence of disability in our human midst as an enrichment of our diversity.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.

You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found that out in your life. And then suddenly when you let go of resistance you let go of an attachment to something: I need this to happen in order to be happy; I don't want what is, I want something else. To be okay with what is, which is the simplicity of this moment, is the beginning of true change.

Stay at the center and let all things take their course.

If you believe that feeling bad will change a past event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my vehicle that is essential. I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my education that is essential. I don't think what is essential about me is my house or my car or my clothes. What is essential about me? Well, I think what is essential is that I live and embrace life right now, wherever I am. I grab it in my arms! Don't spend time crying about yesterday-yesterday is over with! I forgive my past. I forgive the people who've hurt me. I don't want to spend the rest of my life blaming and pointing a finger.

He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

I play to all people - all colors, all creeds ~ drunk, sober, everybody.

No matter where you are on your journey, that's exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead.

Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.

Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.

Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is continually offering itself in a mutual revealing, a mutual sharing. Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears.