Quotes about Acceptance

Everyone, no matter her or his stage in life, has the right to feel beautiful.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?

Yes, I said to myself, there are things I will never be able to do again. I don't like that and may even hate it, but that doesn't change the way things are. The sooner I make peace with that fact and accept the way things are, the sooner I'll be able to live in peace and enjoy my new normalcy.

Sometimes things we take for granted every day can be taken from us permanently and suddenly, we're changed forever.

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

When you start to "fall down the stairs" there is that moment when you realize that you have no control over what is going on. You simply experience the plunge and see where it takes you.

Most of the time when people have that if-you-can-do-it attitude, I nod, acknowledge what they're saying, and add, "I'm just doing the best I can." And really, that's all I did during the worst days. Sometimes "the best I can" was nothing but to endure. Even when I struggled with depression, it was still the best I could do.

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.