Quotes About Acceptance

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues.

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

If I could change the way I live my life today, I wouldn't change a single thing.

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.

Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.

Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.

...I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life!

We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be known ... what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet whatever appears.

Don't go back over your life with a red pen.

Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.

If we take judging ourselves and others out of our life, we will mostly be living in paradise.

Accept life, and you must accept regret.