Quotes About Acceptance

If only, when one heardThat Old Age was comingOne could bolt the door,Answer "Not at home"And refuse to meet him!

Tout passe, tout casse, tout lasse [Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls].

Ruat coelum, fiat voluntas tua [Though heaven should fall, let thy will be done].

Volenti non fit iniuria [To a person who consents no injustice is done].

A melhor maneira de lidar com os outros é tomá-los por aquilo que eles acham que são e deixá-los em paz.

The great majority of people are sorry for themselves at the physical separation, not happy and glad that their friend has gone to a greater, grander, more beautiful life.

ten centuries ago people would have snorted just like that at the idea of a black as Head on this planet. Such narrow stupidity seems fantastic to us now. Our own prejudices will seem just as comical to our great-great-grandchildren.

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

To put it another way, there are lots of things happening to us whether we believe in them or not.

Of what use is it to be tolerant of others if you are convinced that you are right and everyone who disagrees with you is wrong? That isn't tolerance but condescension.

We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause - for what they call success. Those are words that do not correspond to reality. They are conventions, things that are invented, but we don't realize that they don't correspond to reality. What is success? It is what one group decided is a good thing. Another group will decide the same thing is bad.

Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.

The secret is to renounce nothing, cling to nothing, enjoy everything and allow it to pass, to flow.

People don't really want to grow up, people don't really want to change, people don't really want to be happy. As someone so wisely said to me, "Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.

How does one cope with evil? Not by fighting it but by understanding it. In understanding, it disappears. How does one cope with darkness? Not with one's fist. You don't chase darkness out of the room with a broom, you turn on a light. The more you fight darkness, the more real it becomes to you, and the more you exhaust yourself. But when you turn on the light of awareness, it melts.

The one thing you need most of all is the readiness to learn something new. The chances that you will wake up are in direct proportion to the amount of truth you can take without running away.

See how you attempt to bring about change—both in yourself and in others—through the use of punishment and reward, through discipline and control, through sermonizing and guilt, through greed and pride, ambition and vanity, rather than through loving acceptance and patience, painstaking understanding and vigilant awareness.

True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.

So you must "receive" your demons, because when you fight them, you empower them.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed: after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed." But there's a difference: I don't identify with it anymore.

A tu gde je strah nema ljubavi, jer uvek mrzimo ono ?ega se plašimo.

There is another way besides laborious self-punishment on the one hand and stagnant acceptance on the other. It is the way of self-understanding. This is far from easy because to understand what you are requires complete freedom from all desire to change what you are into something else.