Quotes About Acceptance

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

Stand fully in the now moment with gratitude, enthusiasm, openness, and readiness to respond to Life as it greets you.

Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

Life can't always be good, and life can't always be bad. That just holds true. I've learned a lot from that statement, and I think about it, all the time.

You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.

Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence.

Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.

I do not regret one moment of my life.

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

Life's like an hourglass glued to the table.

Things will be all right. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn't anything I would change about my life.

When I finally learned to let go of having to totally control everything around me and let my life unfold, I was stunned by the results. How could I have ever thought I could outsmart the Universe?

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

If I wait until I become perfect before I love myself, I will waste my whole life. I am already perfect right here and right now. I am perfect exactly as I am.

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

Even stupid people have a role to play in your life. They make you wiser and more patient.

In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.