Quotes About Acceptance

Don't spend your life worrying about what you are missing out on. Not to be Buddhist about it- okay, to be a little Buddhist about it- life isn't about being pleased with what you are doing, but about what you are being.

There was no way of living that could immunize you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness.

she had reached some state of acceptance about life – that if there was a bad experience, there wouldn't only be bad experiences. She realised that she hadn't tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery

to be Buddhist about it—okay, to be a little Buddhist about it—life isn't about being pleased with what you are doing, but about what you are being.

it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you're in.

The quiz. Earlier. The twenty-sided polygon. Well, a twenty-sided polygon is called an icosagon. I knew the answer but didn't tell you because I didn't want you to mock me. And now I don't really care because I don't think me knowing some things that you don't should bother you.

You don't become a good person by believing you are a bad one.

I mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness.

and advised I take things 'one day at a time', as if there were another way for days to be experienced.

Yesterday I knew I had no future, and that it was impossible for me to accept my life as it is now. And yet today, that same messy life seems full of hope. Potential.

So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?

He loved you as much as you loved him, and maybe he didn't want you to see him die. You see, cats know. They understand when their time is up. He went outside because he was going to die, and he knew it.

Dedicamos tanto tiempo a desear que nuestras vidas sean distintas, a compararnos con otras personas , con otras versiones de nosotros mismos... Cuando realmente todas las vidas tienen cierto grado de cosas buenas y cierto grado de cosas malas

All you can do with the past is carry it around, feeling its weight slowly increase, praying it never crushes you completely

You have to keep walking forwards. But you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.

Dengarkan baik-baik. Kalau selama ini anda percaya bahwa seseorang yang depresi ingin bahagia, anda salah. Mereka sama sekali tidak peduli betapa menyenangkannya kebahagiaan. Mereka hanya ingin kepedihan mereka lenyap. Mereka ingin menjadi "normal". Atau, karena merasa normal benar-benar mustahil, mereka ingin menjadi "kosong".

Accept. Don't fight things, feel them. Tension is about opposition, relaxation is about letting go.

Maybe there was no perfect life for her, but somewhere, surely, there was a life worth living.

She realized it wasn't her fault that her parents had never been able to love her the way parents were meant to: without condition.

this collision between one's image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can do about it, you can meet the collision head-on and try and become what you really are or you can retreat and try to remain what you thought you were, which is a fantasy, in which you will certainly perish." —James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

You have no control over who people think you are. So don't worry.

Esquivaré en mi vida, milagrosamente, el dolor, la desesperanza, la pérdida, el desamor, las penurias, la soledad, la depresión? No. Pero ¿quiero vivir? Sí. Sí, desde luego Mil veces, sí.

Mett? is about accepting yourself as you are.

The impossible, I suppose, happens via living. Will my life be miraculously free from pain, despair, grief, heartbreak, hardship, loneliness, depression? No. But do I want to live? Yes. Yes. A thousand times, yes.