Quotes About Acceptance

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

To surrender is not giving up the struggle, but finding peace within the struggle.

I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.

If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule.

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance.

Like small children you must have a very clean heart to accept, to absorb the beauty of peace that is within you and also the beauty of purity. Without purity, you cannot enjoy anything.

There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.

This moment, we are right where we need to be, right where we are meant to be.

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

Not judging people is the fastest way to peace.

My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.

I think my apocalyptic feelings went deeper than [heavily influenced by Reagan and AIDS]. I'm really at peace with how afraid I am.

I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it.

I won't be indulging in anger anymore, vehemently and self-righteously singing protest songs, and expecting them to bring peace to me or anyone else.

There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.

I think the community that you're in really can define your ability to be at peace with your circumstances.

Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.

You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

We do say no to a lot, but we also say yes; I find ways of coming to peace with certain things. Sometimes a writer or actor will reach out and make it very personal.