Quotes About Acceptance

I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

If you don't measure up to your expectations, realize that you should just be life without expectations.

Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.

Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just naturally accept whatever comes into life.

Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse form. Don't be concerned one way or the other.

There are people who just can't handle life because they've thrown away too much of their reason.

The island of the tonal, the way we see life, is there so we can get through our life. It was never intended to become a dictator that would usurp all other views of the world and banish them.

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy.

To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.

It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.

Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness!

If everything is going very well in your life, don't change any parameters; don't even think about it!

In the presence of death, no philosophy of life can feel triumphant!

You can't fix everything in life; you must leave some things unfixed to move forward! Do not feel bad about this, because you have no time to fix everything! Leave the unfixed there and move forward!

Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.

This is the first time in my life I've had hair this short. It's always been down to my waist. I can't hide behind my hair any more

I like to live in the present. I struggle with that, though, because - even for all of this "letting your life flow" stuff - I also have anxieties.

I want to look at my audience and see all walks of life. I want to do something for everybody.

This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

You try and live your life as normally as possible and if someone invents a rumor that I have two vaginas, so be it. There's nothing I can do about it.