Quotes About Acceptance

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Every person is different. Yet often, those differences are not understood or valued by others.

Even if you attempt to ignore the loss, the emotional experience of it is implanted in your heart and mind, and no eraser will remove it.

All is as it should be. Learn, let go, move on

Before we can create change, we have to decide something needs to change. Before we can decide something needs to change, we have to accept it as it is. Before we can accept it as it is, we have to be aware of its existence. Awareness is the beginning of all creation.

Don't hold resentments for the experiences that helped make you who you are

Guilt cannot change the past any more than worry can change the future

Judging someone without knowing their life experience, without knowing their pain, by their physical appearance, by their social status, from your own belief system, from other people's gossip, is a very shallow view, and a very shallow opinion.

Resistance increases stress, but acceptance decreases stress

Seek happiness and you will find unhappiness. There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path. Happiness is a state of mind. A state of surrender to and acceptance of what is. Reality experienced through presence. We cannot live in the future nor the past, but we can choose to be held prisoner. To be set free we must move into this moment. This moment is all that exists and all that will ever exist. If we choose not to be happy now, Then When?

Spiritual awakening happens when we stop resisting

Thank the people who wronged you for the lessons in life

Things are often not as they seem, but always as they should be.

Unhappiness is directly proportional to our denial of reality

We cannot get over something while resisting it

We cannot lose control over something we have no control over

We create suffering by denying our own actual experience and embracing relative truth

We too often look to God to fix everything. God didn't create our problems. This is our doing. We have free will. And this is what we choose to do with it. We can accept responsibility for our thoughts as well as our actions. We can choose something different. We can choose love. And we can create a beautiful garden.

The way to live a happy beautiful life is to accept whatever comes and not care about what does not come.

Life imposes certain conditions upon us. If we don't accept the challenge, we become petrified. We don't have any real choice.

If you are born on the edge of a barrel of shit, you have to accept the likelihood of falling into it now and then.

What a shame it is that a philosopher cannot accept what might befall any man.