Quotes About Acceptance

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

After a certain age, you get the face you deserve.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

No matter what you do, your grandmother thinks it's wonderful.

I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.

In my mid-age I do feel more at peace - not with the world, but with myself.

I don't mind aging. I mean, my whole thing is, it's just a privilege to age.

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

I like all ladies of all different ages.

[On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT.

I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her.

She wasn't trying to overcome life, only to get along with it, to blend with the processes she could scarcely understand in a world that had permitted her no solid ground.

Old age isn't a battle old age is a massacre.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

Try to accept each other for what you are and don't point out the fact that the hair he's losing on his head is now growing out of his nose - and his ears.

Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.

I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.

Of course, you can't force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

Don't let ignorance blind you. Open your eyes, heart and your mind. And if you're feeling alone, know that the world can be a lonely place, but it would be lonelier without you in it.

Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.

Only when you can accept that you are alone, will you discover that you are not alone.