Quotes About Acceptance

I hated the reflection in the mirror. I wanted so much to be someone else... I thought that if I was thinner, the rest of my life would change.

It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain, short life spans, and no bread without sweat must be accepted.

and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.

Don't let anybody ever tell you life's fair. Not as long as I'm in it.

Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.

I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.

You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.

Depression catches everyone who lives long enough to be caught.

If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.

Music saved my life a few times because I could play the stuff rednecks loved. They thought I was great and they wondered why I didn't do that all the time.

One day I will have to forgive life for ending, I tell myself. I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality ... just be what it is.

Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.

When you can be happy in your sadness as you are in your happiness. Then you know the key to life.

I don't want people to be afraid of health or illness or mortality, because it's a natural part of life.

Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu. We cannot tear out a single page from our life, but we can throw the entire book in the fire.

The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.

I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.

Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.

And who cares what anyone here thinks? Enjoy life. No one gets out alive.

I'm content where I am. I know I am going to be a Cowboy for life.

I judge nothing; I just don't do that. Life is too complicated.