Quotes About Acceptance

life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on.

Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

The warm and radiant yes of the heart is perfect, like the sun, in bringing all things to life and nourishing all that is truly human.

When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.

If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never heal.

The truth is, I've been the Hulk my whole life.

That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike, we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.

Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.

Don't put your life on hold so that you can dwell on the unfairness of past hurts.

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

In all the events of life, you must recognize the Divine will. Adore and bless it, especially in the things which are the hardest for you.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

"Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"

Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.

When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.