Quotes About Acceptance

I got called 'pretty boy' my whole life.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

You don't feel sorry for yourself, you get on with life. (after not being picked starting goalie)

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I'm nice.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

There will come a point in everyone's life , however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why but one must accept intuition as a fact.

I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.

As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.

If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

I'm a very sensitive person, and I feel what makes me vulnerable. But I see that as a good thing. I really enjoy experiencing all the different emotions in life.

To know that every moment — regardless of how it comes wrapped — is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.