Quotes About Acceptance

But being on the bottom of any power differential makes life a lot harder. If you don't belong to the "in" group, your marginalization can contribute to feelings of not belonging.

Twelve-step programs have long stressed that the key is giving up any illusion of control—to admit that we're wrong, weak, or full of it, and then relinquish authority to a higher power.

The Bible is clear about hate: Hate is wrong.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on. You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.

Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat, to learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind, and learn the art of dying.

There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.

Let yourself go with the disease, be with it, keep company with it—this is the way to be rid of it.

In life, we accept naturally the full reality of what we see and feel in general with no shadow of a doubt. Philosophy, however, does not accept what life believes, and strives to convert reality into a problem. Thus, rather than making life easy for living by living in accord with life, philosophy complicates it by replacing the world's tranquillity with the restlessness of problems.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted by reality

Acceptance of death. — The round of summer and winter becomes a blessing the moment we give up the fantasy of eternal spring.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected.

a concession

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.