Quotes About Acceptance

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories I'm going to hear. On you - if it's Tuesday. Because we're Tuesday people.

Death is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made.

Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help.

Do you believe in reincarnation? I ask. Perhaps. What would you come back as? If I had my chance, a gazelle. A gazelle? Yes, so graceful. So fast. A gazelle? Morrie smiled at me. You think that's strange? I study his shrunken frame, the loose clothes, the socks wrapped feet that rest stiffly on rubber cushions, unable to move, like a prisoner in leg irons. I picture a gazelle racing across the desert. No, I say. I don't think that's strange at all.

Let [love] come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become to soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.

If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid...But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely.

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do"; "Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it"; "Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others"; "Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded.

How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then

Listen. You should know something. All younger people should know something. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen again any how.

But the world does not cater to our timing.

If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing. Which is? Make peace with living.

I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought u wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.

Once you learn how to die, you learn how to survive.

Why suffer in front of so many people?

All younger people should know something. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.

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

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

Well, I have to look at life uniquely now. Let's face it. I can't go shopping, I can't take care of the bank accounts, I can't take out the garbage. But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time—and the reason—to do that." So, I said, in a reflexively cynical response, I guess the key to finding the meaning of life is to stop taking out the garbage?

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." His voice dropped to a whisper. "Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.' " He repeated it carefully, pausing for effect. " 'Love is the only rational act.

His plans never worked out. In time,he found himself graying and wearing looser pants and in a state of weary acceptance, that this was who he was and who he would always be, a man with sand in his shoes in a world of mechanical laughter

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do";