Quotes About Acceptance

The narrower your mind, the narrower your life will be.

The Philosophy is for all; faith and faithless alike.

To stay angry is to stay stagnant.

True and lasting happiness can never be achieved in this world far human nature and the very nature of this life do not allow if so.

Value your lows just as highly as your highs.

We all grow old. Some of us prolong it. Others accelerate it. Nobody can prevent it.

We are mere subjects of the world's decision for us.

We must learn about difference for difference to become the normal.

I just don't give a damn, woman. White or black, I want you for what you are.

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.

There is nothing more liberating than having your worst fear realized.

If you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst to profound reinvention.

There are few things more liberating in life than having your worst fear realized.

Realize that this—the belief that you will be happy if you only get what you want—is an illusion. It's something that allows you to release responsibility for being happy right now, because "someday" everything will line up just right. That day may never come. Happiness isn't getting everything you want. It's appreciating what you have and staying open to the limitless possibilities before you.

Everything gets better with time; how much time is up to us. It's dependent on when we choose to change the stories we tell about our lives; when we decide to spend more time creating the life we want than lamenting the hand we've been dealt; and when we realize that no one's love, forgiveness, or acceptance can be as profoundly healing as our own. Maybe if I stopped trying to control how I hurt, I'd feel a pain that would teach me what I need to do to love life more and need pain less.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?î

What is over and done with, one does not discuss. What has already taken its course, one does not criticize; what already belongs to the past, one does not censure.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

There was no justice in the world, but he had known that ever since the death of his father. The spirits took no part in the lives of men once they had been born. A man either endured what the world sent his way, or was crushed.

All men die," Jelme went on, ignoring the outburst. "It could be tonight, next year, or in forty years, when you are toothless and weak. All you can do is choose how you stand when it comes.

holding to rage is like holding a piece of glowing coal. It burns only him.

A death is never good. It's never pleasant. We can only ignore it, until our time comes.

God giveth and God taketh away. Just be sure you're present when he giveth – and somewhere else when he taketh it all back.