Top 100 Quotes About Acceptance Of Life
#1. One road was simple acceptance of life, the other road offered sweet peace. When I made my decision, my vision became my release.
Dan Fogelberg
#2. The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
Salvatore Quasimodo
#4. An acceptance of life as it really was, rather than trying to force it to be what one wanted, and it never could be.
Danielle Steel
#5. SUCCESS: IS THE UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE OF LIFE AND WHAT IT BRINGS.. Doris Day said:What will be will be. =)
A. R D.D M.G.
#6. Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
Arthur Rubinstein
#7. Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation of the divine Truth here on earth
Sri Chinmoy
#8. Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.
Sri Chinmoy
#9. The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.
Noah Levine
#10. Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life.
Eckhart Tolle
#11. You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.
James Franco
#12. All energy given to us for the achievements of goals and self-actualization is instead spent on deriving acceptance from our surroundings and compliance with the requirements of the society
Sunday Adelaja
#13. Have the capacity to adapt to change, it's your healthy growth, intelligently and emotionally.
Our life can be full of extrinsic surprises, your flexibility is a key when you accept changes.
Angelica Hopes
#14. Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#15. We must, therefore, take a less serious view of all things, tolerating them in a spirit of acceptance: It is more human to laugh at life than to weep tears over it.
Seneca.
#17. this is neither a game of choice nor a life of choice. It's one of influence: Hers. And one of acceptance: Mine.
Holly Bodger
#18. The habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.
Marjorie Holmes
#19. We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.
Pema Chodron
#20. Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.
D.B. Harrop
#21. Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
Carol Leifer
#22. When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me.
Steve Maraboli
#23. God's definition of going well is unique, distinct, almost eccentric. His definition of wellness is not about health, finances, or job security. It's not about unfailing protection from the vagaries and dangers of a broken world. It's not about life being fair. It's about acceptance.
Mark Buchanan
#24. Many people who have progressively lowered their personal standards in an attempt to win social acceptance and life's comforts bitterly resent those of philosophical bent who refuse to compromise their spiritual ideals and who seek to better themselves.
Epictetus
#25. I like to live my life now with peace, patience, serenity, forgiveness, gratitude and acceptance of myself.xx Jean
Jean Murray
#26. Love moves in sync with the cadence of forgiveness, sings in tune with the melody of acceptance, and dances in rhythm with the music of companionship.
Steve Maraboli
#27. What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#28. Endeavour to appreciate life while you experience it, for some will never experience life again, because they are six feet inside the grave.
Auliq Ice
#29. Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.
Haruki Murakami
#30. What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've written a script for a play of our lives that runs about a month ahead of actual life; if reality varies from what we've created in our minds we disengage or pout.
Holly Sprink
#31. It's not the good we see in the people we love, but what we refuse to see that gives us strength."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
"Sometimes when we care about someone, we deny what's right in front of us so we can move forward, so we have a reason to continue to love.
V.R. Barkowski
#32. Love, understanding, courage, and acceptance are expressions of the life of Jesus,
Thich Nhat Hanh
#33. I think everyone practices their Oscars acceptance speech with a shampoo bottle, and I've done my fair share of them. It's really surreal to be able to do it in real life.
Graham Moore
#35. When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319)
Victoria Moran
#36. Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. The intensity of the love is weighted by how much better.
Chris Crutcher
#37. You're all murdering life ... You're all trying to change yourselves, all trying to change what is, and thus you're never actually living what is. You're killing who you are every day of your lives by not being who you are ... where you are.
Luke Rhinehart
#38. This inner yes is an unconditionally constructive attitude of acceptance and respect - first toward yourself, then toward life, and finally toward others.
William Ury
#39. When we can no longer change a situation, its the time to changed our self.
Glenda Radores
#40. Not everyone will like what you have to say. Not everyone will like what you do. Social networking is a garbage pile waiting for rats to feed. Pointless nothings of your everyday lives. Still the fumes rise.
Jerica Barsht
#41. I rather have you win, because in God even those who are in second place are first.
Auliq Ice
#42. There is not enough air in the room for Marianne and Elizabeth to share. They have learned this the hard way, but acceptance of the fact has made life easier. Now they see each other twice a year, for a weekend in the early summer and for the American holiday of Thanksgiving
Jessica Shattuck
#43. We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you.
Moby
#44. We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there.
Auliq Ice
#45. I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.
Terry Gilliam
#46. It's important to have a vision of the long run and make wise decisions for our highest good in the present moment; however, we don't want to become attached to how everything must look. When we show up in good faith, life provides. And when we trust, we are always in the flow of manifestation.
Alaric Hutchinson
#47. Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.
Robert Breault
#48. Families start out, most of the time, with unconditional acceptance of one another. That acceptance starts in childhood and continues into adulthood. Somewhere in there, between childhood and adulthood, the ability to distinguish right versus wrong is born.
Bart Hopkins
#49. Living in intention through acceptance, responsibility, pro-active choice, and the willingness to be ordinary, will move fear aside and allow intuition to surface. All of those skills teach us to be inner focused and aware of who we are becoming. That is powerful. That changes lives.
Rhonda Britten
#50. I understood that I was clearly insane. But he apparently hadn't picked up on how many times in one short letter I asserted that I was not. This acceptance of my questionable mental health made me feel confident that we would be compatible, possibly for life. I
Augusten Burroughs
#51. Do anything totally and it is finished; you will not carry a psychological memory of it. Do anything incompletely and it hangs with you.
Osho
#52. You have two choices in life: Live the life you want or live the life of acceptance.
Shannon L. Alder
#53. Our life is a reflection of what we believe we deserve. As we deepen our acceptance of and open ourselves to the Infinite love of the universe, a new power flows through us, releasing us from the bondage of our old way of life.
Shakti Gawain
#54. Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change.
Steve Maraboli
#55. He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.
Zhuangzi
#56. The world is a place of constant change. If we are open and ready to consider everything while remaining unbiased, we will be ready to accept these changes and utilize them to improve our lives.
Daniel Willey
#57. There are billions of people in this world that don't believe or act exactly as we do. It is not our place to reject them, only accept them. Again, we don't have to agree with everything they believe or do, but we do need to love and accept who they are.
Daniel Willey
#58. I want to
peel away all the labels
I had once given to others
and place them
upon the fabric
of my own identity.
They have reflected back to me,
everything that I refuse
to See in myself.
Meraaqi
#59. Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort
Manoj Arora
#60. To feel grateful is one of the most important experiences we need as humans. When we feel it, there is an acceptance of everything in our life.
Barbara Brennan
#61. Acceptance of the danger is of the essence for playing a quality sport.
Pawan Mishra
#62. A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children.
Louise J. Kaplan
#63. The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.
Iyanla Vanzant
#64. In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.
Christopher Alexander
#65. Happiness is long-lasting, a condition of the soul, the foundation on which the circumstances of life are experienced, endured, or enjoyed.
Auliq Ice
#66. It would seem that losing the sadness would be a good thing, but it has been replaced by nothing -a quiet acceptance of this boring, everyday life. I think it's even worse than being miserable. At least being miserable is active.
Samantha Schutz
#67. The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence.
Debasish Mridha
#69. No child is taught to kill, but he has to be taught to love, respect, honor and value, not only his own life, but the lives of his classmates, parents and teachers. He has to experience love and acceptance. He has to know his life has purpose and meaning. No amount of money can do that.
Cal Thomas
#70. When you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.
Richard Carlson
#71. Inorder to accept any sort of change, you must realize that you do not have control over everything in your life.
Auliq Ice
#72. Losing Foxen was bad. It would leave her blind and lonely in the dark. Being trapped beneath the pipes and choking out her life was awful too. But neither of those things were wrong.
Patrick Rothfuss
#74. The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
Abe Fortas
#75. Not being changed by prayer is sort of life standing in the middle of a spring rain without getting wet. It's hard to stand in the center of God's acceptance and love without getting it all over you.
Steve Brown
#76. Allow yourself to celebrate your sense of freedom , your capacity to make a choice and your strength in facing the truth. Not everyone has the courage to do so, even if it hurts ... ... Knowing is KEY to acceptance.
Abby Espiritu
#77. We cannot expect life to be perfect. But we can expect to see life come from death. We can expect to see morning after night. We can expect that acceptance of the struggle will give rise to the victory over self.
Joan D. Chittister
#78. IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#79. Stop wasting so much energy hating your body; it makes you weaker. Everything good in your life begins from the moment you begin accepting, understanding, respecting, and loving your true self.
Harry Papas
#80. Don't let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.
Jaeda DeWalt
#81. That the majority of people do not embrace salvation in this life does not mean that their experiences now do not lay a foundation for a later acceptance of it.
Gregory MacDonald
#82. I will gladly deal with the inconveniences that may attend living my life as I see fit, rather than be the kind of man who would forsake his own desires in order to seek or preserve the acceptance of lesser men.
~ Dave Champion
Dave Champion
#83. So this was the Ashram's final joke on me? Once I had learned to accept my loud, chatty, social nature and fully embrace my inner Key Hostess - only then could I become The Quiet Girl in the Back of the Temple, after all?
Elizabeth Gilbert
#84. Acceptance and its counterpart, understanding, are crucial to achieving relationship harmony. It is sacred love, the highest form of love, and like most things worth striving for in life, it requires patience, commitment, personal responsibility, and practice.
Arielle Ford
#85. It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.
Neil Gaiman
#86. How quickly someone else's life can enter through the cracks we don't know are there until this foreign thing is inside of us. We are more porous than we know.
Emily Ruskovich
#87. There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.
Oliver Burkeman
#88. Today, God, help me practice the concept of acceptance in my life. Help me accept myself, others, and my circumstances. Take me one step further, and help me feel grateful.
Melody Beattie
#89. Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.
Steve Maraboli
#90. When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.
Eckhart Tolle
#91. As life hits us head-on we can respond with resentment, resignation, acceptance, or welcome. We are the living examples of our responses.
Billy Graham
#92. Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
Kenneth L. Pike
#93. Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.
Carl Jung
#94. Breathe in, take what life hands you; hold it, accept it; breathe out, let it go.
Susan Gable
#95. Let's not hate the existence of hatred.
Toba Beta
#96. The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life.
Jim Fixx
#97. The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'normal'.
Stacey Kade
#98. Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have.
Rhonda Britten
#99. See, you've got to understand, son. There's two types of guys in this world. There's guys . . . who think they're in control, and guys like us who live in the moment. Who accept life as it is.
Brent Jones
#100. Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.
Mariama Ba
