Quotes About Acceptance

Detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it.

Embrace aging.

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

A child embarrassed by his mother," she said, "is just a child who hasn't lived long enough.

You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don't know everything. And since we don't know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.

Because we embrace our scars more than our healing. [...] We can recall the exact day we got hurt, but who remembers the day the wound was gone?

What's wrong with being number 2?

When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

Tears are okay

Lost love is still love.

Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, "All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is.

I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded.

But you cannot change your past, no matter how you craft your future.

when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.

You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself..

Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it.

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come.

Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.

You don't know how to live until you learn how to die.

It is too late. The old man shook his head. It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be. He smiled. There is a plan, Dor.

There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying things seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.