Quotes About Acceptance

He said, 'Don't mind what happened to me. Don't be angry. I'm a frail creature with certain crude reflexes.

because what good would it do when a true understanding of what was in store for them couldn't save them from any of it?

Rumi says: Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing There is a field. I'll meet you there.

Don't keep searching for the truth; Just let go of your opinions.

Rumi tells us that moment we accept what troubles we've been given, the door will open.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing," he writes, "there is a field. I'll meet you there.

too—I realized that my only hope was to give up the life that had been, in order to make room for the life that is. I call it my "choiceless choice.

We're all bozos on the bus, so we might as well sit back and enjoy the ride. —WAVY GRAVY

To trust who our child is, and not who we think he should be or what the world wants him to be—that perhaps is the single greatest gift a parent can give.

While Once-Born people avoid or deny or bitterly accept the unpredictable changes of real life, Twice-Born people use adversity for awakening.

I accept now that the point of life is not to reach perfection but to befriend the fact that human beings are works in progress.

from the moment we are born we are dying every day in all sorts of physical, emotional, and spiritual ways.

Let the young rain of tears come, Let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think. —ROLF JACOBSEN

If I can approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain, then my daily labors will be swift and fruitful.

In their most broken moments they were brought to their knees; they were humbled; they were opened.

A heart made crooked through loss and change is a heart that can love the world and its less than perfect people.

grief is good—that it is a sign of how well we have loved. And

She says, "You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.

I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.

Yes," Shannon said calmly. "I could have died. But so what? The stars would have come out tonight and the sun would have risen tomorrow morning. The only difference would be that I wouldn't see it." Shannon to Whip.

You may hold my tears and live as you did before, trusting your soul to no one. Or you may release my tears and accept what comes.

Too bad, how sad, life's a bitch and then you die.

No need for you to think about something pink to wear or something blue or yellow. No use to think about soft colours. You might as well wear one kind as another. Drab. Brown. Faded dark old shrunk-up anything is good enough. Why don't you just give up and be ugly? That's what you are. Ugly. That's all.

Happy!" retorted Christopher. "What would you do if you met your best friend in hell? Say you were happy to know he was there, too, and isn't the pitch hot?