Quotes About Acceptance

1—It doesn't matter how many people don't get it. What matters is how many people do.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present." —Lao Tzu

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

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins." [Quote attributed to Neale Donald Walsch]

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace." –Robert J. Sawyer

The biggest mistake you can make is to accept the norms of your time.' Not accepting norms is where you innovate, whether it's with technology, with books, with anything. So, not accepting the norm is the secret to really big success and changing the world.

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.

Be open to whatever comes next."—John Cage

You can be a juicy ripe peach and there'll still be someone who doesn't like peaches.

Esto no significa ver los problemas, aceptarlos y dejar que degeneren.

La felicidad es querer lo que ya tienes.»

The more you run from your fears, the bigger they get, but the more you go into them, the more they tend to vanish like a mirage.

Let it go. I do mean to take life very seriously, but I need to take things like playfulness and purposelessness very seriously. . . . This is not meant to be light, but I think I would have somehow encouraged myself to let go a little bit more and hang in there and not pretend to know where this is all going. You don't need to know where it's all going.

What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you've ever made? "If I accept you as you are, I make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that."—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It doesn't matter how many people don't get it. What matters is how many people do.

Tara by Maria Popova (page 406), who said, "[Tara] has changed my life, perhaps more profoundly than anybody in my life." I then read Tara's first book, Radical Acceptance,

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

You can't be afraid to show your scars.

If I accept you as you are, I make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that."—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Obras de Pema Chödrön:

There is no way to happiness—happiness is the way." –THICH NHAT HANH

If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? "You are good enough, just as you are. Breathe, and relax into the moment.

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.

What do you need right now in order to be happy? Do you need anything other than what is happening right now in order to be happy?" That orients me right away toward what I care about.