Quotes About Acceptance

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Reminisce about it, but don't live in it. Learn from it, but don't punish yourself about it or continually regret it. Don't get stuck in it.

If we can make peace with dying, we can finally make peace with living.

recognize, with a slight shock, that I really don't believe how old I am, and when I do believe it I want to forget it.

believe that trying to become the best person we can be, aging well, and coming to terms with our issues might be the most important and meaningful goals to strive for in later life.

it is said that the prostitutes' guild of Paris offered a window or a chalice for Notre Dame. It was decided that the gift could be accepted, but would receive no publicity.

It is sometimes better to be content with a small, sour apple than to eat strange fruits in an alien country.

I don't like making pacts with tomorrow. I want today—just as it is, good and bad. I feel safe that way. I don't want to face the great perhaps.

Saben entendérselas con la muerte. Es la vida lo que los desconcierta.»

alegría es un don que se acepta con agradecimiento y sin intentar pagarlo, así como no se intenta pagar la luz del sol ni el canto de los pájaros.

You are not born to peace, my friend. This is the first thing you must accept. You will not come to it, perhaps, till the day you die. Each of us has his own cross, you know, made and fitted to his reluctant shoulders.

If you spend your life waiting for the sun, you'll never enjoy the storm.

It would be a lot easier if each of us were related to someone of another color and if, eventually, we were all one color. In America, this can happen.

I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

Accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

it doesn't matter who it is, and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.

I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.

The foolish man thinks cats can only have cat food. The wise man knows they are allowed a little salami.

Some of us are actually not that cute

Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.