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Quotes About Acceptance

My psychiatrist once said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'.
~ Oscar Levant
Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have.
~ Rhonda Britten
Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
~ Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes
one should be afraid of life, not of death.
~ Marlene Dietrich
Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.
~ Spencer Johnson
May be she'll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.
~ Stephen King
I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.
~ Tommy Lee Jones
Though my muscles may stiffen, though my skin may wrinkle, may I never find myself yawning at life.
~ Toyohiko Kagawa
One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.
~ Merle Shain
I think the whole mission of being here on Earth is to accept what you have, and my journey was to accept my own life and not pretend anything else. I think that's what we all struggle with.
~ Michael Nyqvist
The point of life is not to get anywhere-it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor.
~ Richard Rohr
The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.
~ Edgar Morin
My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.
~ Kim Wilde
Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.
~ Norman Wisdom
It's OK to be different.
~ Gerard Way
Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.
~ Jerry Brown
Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.
~ Byron Katie
Your life is what you remember. I mean, some things I wish I still had. But it doesn't matter.
~ Johnny Ramone
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
~ Laozi
Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.
~ Devendra Banhart
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
~ Zhuangzi