Quotes About Acceptance

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

No, Doctor, I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old.

To dream too much of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Were it not better to forget Than to remember and regret?

Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing.

Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.

We should have no regrets. ... The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's good only for wallowing in.

If I die, I forgive you: if I recover, we shall see.

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.

That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

It is possible to be different and still be all right.

I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

I was playing it like Willie Wilson, but I forgot that I'm in Clint Hurdle's body.

One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.