Quotes About Acceptance

I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.

Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.

I have a right to live my life and just be me with whoever I choose. We just do the best we can.

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

Judging yourself to be full of virtue paralyses. Judging yourself to be full of guilt also paralyses.

But he keeps his heart free of any feelings of hatred.

Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

Don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.

Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl.

I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.

Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.

A middling talent makes for a more serene life.

If we prepare ourselves for life's inevitables, we will not be perplexed by life's transitions.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

You look how you look