Quotes About Acceptance

Understanding the transitory nature of all things is prerequisite to letting go of expectations and attachments.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. RUMI

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. from the SERENITY PRAYER

After a certain age, any new friends we make in our attempt to replace the ones we've lost are like glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs.

In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead. [last words]

When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't.

There are some things I guess we bury so we can get on with living. I don't think it's wrong, necessarily, just what we do to survive. It's the remembering part that's hard. Some people remember and some never have to. The blessed and the cursed.

When two words are identical, you must not take undue offence or think you have been wronged in terms of choice. Simplicity is a fine patience of meaning.

Keep to Beauty. Have no fear. Learn to bear the unbearable. The raw of all things.

Don't be beautiful, you irritating creature.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

As long as I've given something the best I can, have really committed, everything else is up to God.

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.

I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.

I don't hope," he answered, eyes on her. "I never hope. I just live in gratitude for what comes.

Grief is a killer, isn't it?" he said. "Brings you right up to the truth.

Oh, what idiots we all have been. This is just as it must be.

Day after day I prayed. More and more I remembered the days of her living, and less and less I dwelled on the tragedy of her dying. Gradually peace came to me, and with it a measure of acceptance.

He laid a hand on my arm and said calmly, with resignation, "Don't get excited and angry. It's useless to get angry with them. They have the last word always. If they say something happened, it happened. It's useless to resist. I've learned this from my personal experience.