Quotes About Acceptance

Acceptance of karma should not be confused with fatalism. We are all, to a great extent, masters of our own fate. But also we must learn to bow before the inevitable: this is the true meaning of acceptance and it is only this which brings the harmony without which life is not really worth living.

Laughing at what you didn't have and never would was better than letting it depress you

All of life's great lessons involve loss

The past is littered with regret, the future bound by anxiety. The time is always now.

No matter where you go, no matter how far you run, you can't run away from yourself.

You'll have to be grateful for what we can do instead of angry about what we can't.

To be human is to be beautifully flawed

part of her didn't want her wounds to be healed. Not yet. She wasn't ready. She still needed to kick against the hurt of her grief. The

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.

I have accepted fear as a part of life — specifically the fear of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.

Knowledge brings understanding and acceptance, only then can healing beings.

Being hurt is part of being a fallible human being, surrounded by other fallible human beings.

If you're so afraid of the past you have to hide from it, it's not your past. It's your present.

Better a puppet in hell than one here on earth.

Ça ne fait rien, disait monsieur Ibrahim. Ton amour pour elle, il est à toi. Il t'appartient. Même si elle le refuse, elle ne peut rien y changer. Elle n'en profite pas, c'est tout. Ce que tu donnes, Momo, c'est à toi pour toujours; ce que tu gardes, c'est perdu à jamais!

It is what it is

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Mein Charakter ist meinem Verstand in keiner Weise gewachsen. Ich bedaure das aufrichtig, aber ich tue nichts mehr dagegen.

Du hast nichts als Fehler", rief sie. "Jeden einzelnen deiner Fehler könnte ich hassen, alle miteinander habe ich lieb.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.