Quotes About Acceptance

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.

In any situation in life, you only have three options. You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It's that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.

Love yourself . . . You've got to love yourself before you can love others. Without it, nothing productive is going to happen, and we can all bang our heads on the wall.

Named must your fear be before banish it you can. —YODA, from Star Wars:

I used to resent obstacles along the path, thinking, 'If only that hadn't happened life would be so good.' Then I suddenly realized, life is the obstacles. There is no underlying path." Janna Levin TW/IG: @jannalevin

Define the worst case, accept it, and do it.

I've never for a moment even thought about that. I don't do replays well. The question I'll never answer is, 'What would you have done differently had you known X?' I never, ever play that game because you didn't know X.

Da igual cuánta gente no te entienda. Lo importante es cuánta gente sí lo hace.

Suffering is a moment of clarity, when you can no longer deny the truth of a situation and are forced into uncomfortable change.

Happiness, or at least peace, is the sense that nothing is missing in this moment. No desires running amok. It's okay to have a desire. But pick a big one and pick it carefully. Drop the small ones.

Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from getting what you want.

There is no way to happiness—happiness is the way." –THICH NHAT HANH Vietnamese Buddhist monk and Nobel

Happiness, or at least peace, is the sense that nothing is missing in this moment.

As Brandon Stanton put it, "Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from what you want.

Therefore, to be furious and enraged and bitter that people don't get all of who we are is a really a cruel piece of immaturity.

Buddhists believe that we are the cause of our own suffering. We can't control the fact that bad things are going to happen, but it's how we react to them that really matters, and that we can learn to control.

Ignore the unfairness—there is no fair. Play the hand that you're dealt to the best of your ability. People are highly consistent, so you will eventually get what you deserve and so will they. In the end, everyone gets the same judgment: death.

a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling.

Let life ripen and then fall. Will is not the way at all."—Lao Tzu, from The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu

porque cuando te sientes agradecido, todos sabemos que no hay ira.

If you push the fear away, the only version of fear available to you will be its crazy, irrational, or contorted version. If you're willing to feel it, and merge with it, its energy and wisdom will appear.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. —STEVE JOBS,

Cuando terminas de sentir una emoción (alegría, enfado, tristeza o cualquier otra) notas que se ha acabado. Se fue.

5—You can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into. #6—"Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. You'll avoid the tough decisions, and you'll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted."—Colin Powell #7—"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."—Epictetus