Quotes About Acceptance

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can't despise my whole life.

I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.

all good things come to an end, and sometimes that's the way you know if they were good to begin with.

remembering what she said about love trying to live with what I can't rise above.

Life doesn't give a fuck who's living it.

Love mans knowing when to let go.

There was lots that could be done. But there was also nothing that could be done. My father was dying.

Life is not a task.

If the story that engenders the fear is dropped, I discover that all I am left with is a physical sensation which is raw and alive. Now it ceases to overrun me and quietly takes its place in existence. It is the same with physical or emotional pain. When I cease to own it I liberate myself from its bondage and see it simply as it is. If I cease to label suffering as bad, and mine, it is possible to allow it simply as energy in a certain form, and it can then begin to have its own flavour.

It seems to me that our attachment to purpose is born from our need to prove something to ourselves. But life is simply life, and is not trying to prove anything at all. This springtime will not try to be better than last springtime, and neither will an ash tree try to become an oak.

I suspected it was just that I no longer cared so much. And that felt like the saddest thing in the world

to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go

Love means knowing when to let go.

It's funny. You love something and one day it's suddenly gone or changed or lost forever. But somehow that doesn't stop your loving. Maybe that's how you know it's the real thing.

What's the alternative to being right? Maybe it is being well. Not trying to control others, but practicing self-control and self-containment.

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

Things take care of themselves as long as you trust and don't try to control too much. Things will happen. Things tend to occur. Why resist what's inevitable? That's like swimming against the current, salmon notwithstanding. Go with the flow, you know? Glide with the glow, man. It's easier.

Sterven doe je niet ineens, maar af en toe een beetje, en alle beetjes die je stierf, 't is vreemd, maar die vergeet je. Het is je dikwijls zelfs ontgaan. Je zegt: ik ben wat moe, maar op een keer dan ben je aan je laatste beetje toe.

Ah! Qué terrible es el sino de los pobres locos, esos 'renglones torcidos', esos yerros, esas faltas de ortografía del Creador, como los llamaba 'el Autor de la Teoría de los Nueve Mundos', ignorante de que él era uno de los más torcidos de todos los renglones de la caligrafía divina!

Men hva annet kan vi gjøre enn å grave fram vårt eget mørke og stirre på det så lenge som mulig, håpe at det en dag skremmes bort fra våre egne, hatefulle øyne.

Nei - øøøæææh! BANANARAMA?! Eg like jo heavy, ugh, eg like ikje sånn fittemusikk frå helvete! - Du må åpne opp for nye ting. Du har levd for lenge i det der kukfengselet for lenge og hørt på heavy. I kveld,høre du, ikveld, skal du og meg drikke Cava og høre på Bananarama, for eg elske Banarama og alt di står for!

Kuulin radiosta, äiti sanoi, että hän ei koskaan elänyt yhdessä miesten kanssa. Pelkästään naisten. Niin, sanoin minä. Niin se kai oli. Onko sillä väliä? äiti kysyi. Ei, sanoin, se ei kuulu meille. Mahtoiko hänellä olla siitä jotain iloa? äiti sanoi. Toivotaan niin, sanoin. Ihminen saa niin kauhean harvoin mitään iloa rakkaudesta, äiti sanoi.

I found the secret to life; I'm okay when everything is not okay.