Quotes About Acceptance

No dignity in death and not much more when she was living

As the rest of them aged and raged against the good night to come, he faced it with equanimity, even with amusement. Death, he said, was the last big adventure.

There was candlelight for which she was grateful. Recently she had noticed fine lines above her upper lip and knew that she could no longer get away with sleeveless dresses.

That was his father's way. Things he couldn't change he made the best of. He said there was no point in taking on the world. He'd never win.

There was no point, she'd learned, in raging against the inevitable, and incompetent bosses seemed to be as inevitable as death.

Perhaps fear in the abstract is worse than facing the immediate reality.

I don't have my own life any more.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.

I'm just at the age when time speeds up in an odd way. Do you know what I mean? The winters come closer together and you learn to accept that you're not special anymore.

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

The Grammys are very wide-ranging but it's still within the Western world of music. So it would be lovely if that opened up more.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

No matter what your hair looks like once it's wet, it's about embracing it and loving yourself for you and all that that entails.

The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.

I try not to go down the 'what if' road very often. It isn't fruitful and just makes you feel crummy.

One should never live with regrets or with 'what if.' I've loved the good times, and I have learned from the bad. All in all, it's been a pretty fabulous life for me.

I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. That way, you don't worry about people and don't waste your time thinking, 'What if he cheats on me?' You can't control that.

Who says I don't know how to speak in English? So what if it has a Punjabi touch?

If I'm hated, so what? If I'm loved, so what?

You cannot look back and think what if.

No matter what, if my son was gay, I'd treat him like a king.

People are gonna comment no matter what. If I dated the most clean-cut, perfect guy, they're gonna comment. That's just the way it is.