Quotes About Acceptance

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is noting more to worry about!

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

Fear not; the things that you are afraid of are quite likely to happen to you, but they are nothing to be afraid of.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

The ground of fearlessness is fear. In order to be fearless, you have to stand in the middle of your fear.

Some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart.

In reality there is nothing to fear in the present. Fear is projected onto the present by memory.

Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.

Kohaku aren't you afraid to die? No. Truly, there is neither fear nor hesitation in your eyes.

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

We are lovers, fear and I. She calls to me, and I let her in.

When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are - not an entrapped self but the radiance of goodness.

Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death.

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.