Quotes About Acceptance

the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it.

A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.

There's a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

The secret to life is trusting yourself and loving who you are, just the way you are.

It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.

The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.

A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.

It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.

Life doesn't care about your vision. You just gotta roll with it.

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That's life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what's going on.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

You can't get what you want all the time in life.

To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.