Quotes About Acceptance

Nothing is wrong - whatever is happening is just "real life."

It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.

I release all feelings of worry and guilt. Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done and worry about what might be done.

You can't beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Never say "never" about anything, because if you do, life has a way of humbling you.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

Life just happens. It's what you're believing about life that makes you suffer.

The warrior's approach is to say 'yes' to life: 'yes' to it all.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.

We are all a people in need. We are not perfect. We are not machines. We make mistakes. We need grace. We need compassion. We need help at times. We need other people. And that's okay.

We're not always going to understand why something happens.True faith is trusting even when it doesn't make sense

You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

My life's a mess. I'm not afraid to admit it.

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

Be worried if no one is criticizing you. Your job in life is to ignore the 33% who will never like you and do your best to convince the 33% who don't care either way to join the 33% who love you

The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.

My laughter won't last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn't perfect. And it isn't. It isn't perfectly good. But, it also isn't perfectly bad, either.

I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.