Quotes About Acceptance

It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.

The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

The fear of not having enough prevents many from seeing that they already are enough.

I don't fear death; I welcome it with open arms and a smirk. But until that wondrous day, I will continue to savor and celebrate all those who have graduated before me.

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.

Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

When we don't ask, we don't let others give. When we fear rejection, we don't let generosity arise.

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house.

In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before any big climb. You must say to yourself, I may die here.