Quotes About Acceptance

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.

Yes, I said to myself, there are things I will never be able to do again. I don't like that and may even hate it, but that doesn't change the way things are. The sooner I make peace with that fact and accept the way things are, the sooner I'll be able to live in peace and enjoy my new normalcy.

When you start to "fall down the stairs" there is that moment when you realize that you have no control over what is going on. You simply experience the plunge and see where it takes you.

Most of the time when people have that if-you-can-do-it attitude, I nod, acknowledge what they're saying, and add, "I'm just doing the best I can." And really, that's all I did during the worst days. Sometimes "the best I can" was nothing but to endure. Even when I struggled with depression, it was still the best I could do.

Some things happen to us from which we never recover, and they disrupt the normalcy of our lives. That's how life is. Human nature has a tendency to try to reconstruct old ways and pick up where we left off. If we're wise, we won't continue to go back to the way things were (we can't anyway). We must instead forget the old standard and accept a 'new normal.

Attaining the goal of a full, happy life, ripe with experiences well-used, means that each of us will become a paradox—free, yet constrained by necessity; shrewd, yet innocent; open to others, yet self-reliant; strong, yet able to yield; centered on the highest values, yet able to accept imperfection; realistic about the suffering existence imposes on us, yet full of gratitude for life as it is.

Nines must resist the urge to escape into "premature Buddhahood"... and away from the mundane world. They must remember that "the only way out is through.

You know what you did? You embraced the insanity you were telling us about. – Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street

Accept grace when it's offered

guy trips over the age thirty wire, he realizes that certain things he wanted in his life just aren't going to happen.

Then know," Caro said, "that you have to accept both sides of this thing. Enjoy the rewards, accept the losses, do the terrible things you sometimes have to do. Never shed blood you don't have to, but when you have to, harden your heart and do it.

There comes a time in a man's life, he figured, the infamous midlife crisis, when a guy has to face the reality that what he has is all he's going to get, and he needs to find his peace and his happiness in his life as it is.

The problem with the designs of most engineers is that they are too logical. We have to accept human behavior the way it is, not the way we would wish it to be.

Living is more important than acceptance - acceptance is not as important as understanding. - Donald Allen Kirch

Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H

There are enough critical voices in this world; you don't have to be one of them.

I certainly dont write to exclude anyone.

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...

I majored in Creative Writing in college. Then I got over it.

Arthur Schopenhauer once said, "All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident.

A (catch) net (is) no good unless the person to be caught (wants) to be caught.

Well, she was dead, and there was no use crying over spilt milk.

I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson!