Quotes About Acceptance

To love anything is to accept its loss —UNKNOWN

When I decided to leave was when I learned and accepted that I can't change people, I can't save people, only love them. I can only change myself and my circumstances

She told me that you get to have only one true love, and once you've found it, whether you kept it or lost it, you'd never recover...Accepting that was the hardest part.

If you think your scars bother me, you're wrong. In my eyes, you're a hero. Your scars are just proof of that.

God Sophie... If there were any chance we could be together... If there were any woman I'd want to be the mother of my... Shit, this is so hard. No, Hunt, it's simple. If right now is all we have, if this is all we get, then I'll grab it with both hands and take all I can.

And believing in choice meant you supported it whether someone's choice conformed to your personal beliefs or not.

The ability to accept and adapt gracefully to life's twists and turns is one of the greatest skills you'll learn. Should you plan for the things you want? Absolutely. But if you're not exactly where you wanted to be, exactly when you wanted to be there, don't sweat it.

You can't change your past, but you can change your mind about your past.

Shama is quietude of mind, tranquility, equanimity, and composure. First, learn to compose yourself. Rather than expecting the external world to conform to your expectations, learn to expect the unexpected. Regard turmoil as normal and take worldly blows in stride. Expecting things to be perfect leads to disappointment. Disappointment and tranquility cannot coexist.

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

Make up your mind that you will be happy whether you are rich or poor, healthy or unhealthy, happily married or unhappily married, young or old, smiling or crying. Don't wait for yourself, your family, or your surroundings to change before you can be happy within yourself. Make up your mind to be happy within yourself, right now, whatever you are, or wherever you are.

Remember, people suffer only because they think things ought to be different from what they are. A

Kriya Yoga is more than a meditation technique; it is also a way of life, and requires acceptance by the initiate of certain spiritual disciplines and injunctions.

Some aspects of true religion are accepted almost universally. Who, indeed, would deny them? Were anyone to declare that Jesus Christ's real meaning in the verse, "Except ye . . . become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven" (Matt. 18:3), was that we should all put on rompers and play on the beach with spades and buckets, he would be merely laughed at. To be childlike is not the same thing at all as to be childish.

The one who pursues a goal of even-mindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss.

Wrath springs only from thwarted desires. I do not expect anything from others, so their actions cannot be in opposition to wishes of mine. I

The one who pursues a goal of even-mindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss. He knows that man arrives penniless in this world, and departs without a single rupee.

Basking day by day in the sunshine of my guru's love, unspoken but keenly felt, I banished from my conscious mind the various hints he had given of his approaching passing.

Wholeness does not mean perfection; it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

No habiendo podido los hombres remediar la muerte la miseria y la ignorancia, han imaginado, para ser felices, no pensar en absoluto en ellas.

I do not think that people have religion because they relax their usually strict criteria for evidence and accept extraordinary claims; I think they are led to relax these criteria because some extraordinary claims have become quite plausible to them.

The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to be.

grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced.