Quotes About Acceptance

Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.

Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.

Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.

In life you get one take, and it's perfect. It's strange, afterwards you might think I shouldn't have reacted that way, but that's the way you reacted. That's your take; that's all you get.

...I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.

Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves.

Look, a lot of people don't think that the way that I live my life is a real thing, that it exists, that having a broad spectrum of sexual orientation is even possible.

There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair.

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.

The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing.

No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

There is no wrinkle-free life.

Life hardly ever lives up to our anxieties.

When those types of situations[like abuse] begin to occur in your life - I had bought in from a very early age that fundamentally something must be wrong with me.

Every scar has a life of its own and a space in my heart.

We learn what we need, Not what we'd want to

Anyone who has known happiness will never again be able humbly to accept sadness.

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

The Gift belongs to whoever chooses to accept it. It is enough to believe and not to be afraid to make a few mistakes.

Sometimes it is impossible to stop the river of life.

He too knows how to lose.

He accepts his Personal Legend completely.