Quotes About Acceptance

In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.

I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared.

We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

Trying to "fix" the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.

Life is what you make of it, unless you have tourette's, in which case much becomes involuntary.

I live my life with no regrets. Each decision of mine has define my life in a certain way

Me can't be prejudice. Me can't me no think of life that way. Because, me figure if you prejudice, that mean you have a hate. If you have a hate inside of you, you can't be righteous.

I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

Let what comes come, let what goes go.

Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.

I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

Life is short, so don't waste any of it carrying around a load of bitterness. It only sours your life, and the world won't pay any attention anyway.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.

The only thing constant in the world is change, that's why today I take life as it comes.

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.