Quotes About Acceptance

Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.

It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and such a way, you will never learn what your nature wants.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it.

Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed.

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

We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.

It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.