Quotes About Acceptance

I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I've learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances.

Wrinkles ought to be worn as a badge of honour, as a mark of survival if not wisdom.

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

The wisdom to quit is all we have left.

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

There is wisdom to loving.

Embrace the wisdom of uncertainty.

Don't solve your problems, dissolve your problems - so that they should not recur again.

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

There is no wisdom but in death

I believe the day is done. Whether it's been the best day or the worst, it's over; let it go.

This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.

Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would be LIFE without them

The world is neither good nor bad; the world is the world. The

If one religion true, then all the others also must be true. Thus the Hindu faith is yours as much as mine.

if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realise the Divinity within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formularies help you to realise the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, and whatever temples, and whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward, towards the brutes.

Do I wish that the Christian would become Hindu? God forbid. Do I wish that the Hindu or Buddhist would become Christian? God forbid. The

This world is like a dog's curly tail, and people have been striving to straighten it out for hundreds of years; but when they let it go, it has curled up again. How could it be otherwise? One must first know how to work without attachment, then one will not be a fanatic.

if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart, and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written, in spite of resistance: "Help and not Fight," "Assimilation and not Destruction," "Harmony and Peace and not Dissension." 1.2

And so, as in every other thing, we are always trying to ignore the standard of another, trying to bind the whole world to our standard.