Quotes About Acceptance

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn't catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.

Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

I can't really do anything about the past and all I can do is just embrace the future and try to make the most of the present. So I'm really trying to do that and doing my best every day.

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

Refuse to deny what you know but consent to how little that will always be, and, when the moment comes, the sky will open and the liberating intrusion will descend upon you.

It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever.

Change to me is like an old friend. It's not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new.

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

Do not accept whatever comes. Do not accept whatever goes. You have infinite power. Exercise your choice.

You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.

... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.

One's enemy is often the best teacher of tolerance.

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.

I don't have to know everything that's gonna happen, I know enough.

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.

If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side and not get enamored or depressed by either.