Quotes About Acceptance

You have to learn to do everything even to die.

Oh death you can wait keep your distance.

The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord.

Everybody's gotta die sometime. That's life.

The only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

If your time hasn't come not even a doctor can kill you.

You should be so lucky to be like me. I allow myself to be disturbed too often. I'll probably end up talking to birds in a park. But you'll probably end up with regrets.

Regret is the sound of the ghosts of our own making. I will live with mine until I die.

Dear Whoever-that-just-found-out-that-they-have-a-terminal-illness, don't let that put you down. Technically, we are all dying.

When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

He will take good care to provide what is necessary for our sanctification, provided we are careful to accept everything according to His designs.

The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.

Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the nourishment of interest and attention.

Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.