Quotes About Acceptance

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

If you have problems in your life, don't assume there is something wrong with you.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

The rains of Life's Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.

Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.

Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don't expect anything, you don't get disappointed.

Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are.

Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

One thing always sure. Life go on with you or without you, no matter how much you seen.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

Blame someone else and get on with your life.

Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Life is all about balance. Since I have only one leg, I understand that well.

If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong.

The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

When you say "yes" to the "isness" of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.

Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well.