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Quotes About Acceptance

It all ends in tears anyway.
~ Jack Kerouac
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
~ Zoe Saldana
The unnatural, that too is natural.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
~ Gautama Buddha
When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
~ Khalil Gibran
Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth. It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our natural wisdom.
~ Stephen Levine
The beauty of things must be that they end.
~ Jack Kerouac
When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".
~ John Lennon
Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.
~ C.P. Snow, The Masters
O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.
~ Salman al-Ouda
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
~ Alfred de Vigny
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
~ Stendhal
There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.
~ Cornelia Otis Skinner
Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.
~ Wes Fesler
Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
~ Alan Watts
If you learn how to make fun of yourself, your ego will go down.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.
~ Norman Cousins
Life's managed, not cured.
~ Phillip C. McGraw
I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha