Quotes About Accepting Change

#1. It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

Jane Austen

#2. The more emphasis we put on wanting things to change, the more unpeaceful we will be. The more emphasis we put on accepting and having gratitude for 'What is' the closer we are to arriving at Nirvana.

Matthew Donnelly

#3. If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.

Malcolm Turnbull

#4. When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.

Kelseyleigh Reber

#5. Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.

Richard Bach

#6. Depression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them.

Chloe Thurlow

#7. Love made room for conflict. It allowed for the expression of more than one view and invited the paradox that disagreement was vital to harmony. Love required accepting and meant changing oneself rather than demanding change of others.

Jo Goodman

#8. The paradox is that we can become wiser and more compassionate and live more fulfilling lives by refusing to be who we have tended to be in the past. But we must also relax, accepting things as they are in the present, as we strive to change ourselves.

Sam Harris

#9. You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.

Peter J. Daniels

#10. We can be a victim or a creator. One takes negative memories to use as a crutch, remain the same and blame. The latter takes negative memories accepting responsibility for choosing the situation to learn, evolve and change.

Juls Amor

#11. Accepting a situation doesn't mean you have to be okay with it. You can take steps to change things, but then you need to detach from the outcome & accept how things turn out. You keep doing your best & accept reality. If you keep getting upset over things you have no control over, you have no peace

Brenda Wilhelmson

#12. The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.

Steve Maraboli

#13. Things can change if you stop accepting the unacceptable.

Jeanette Coron

#14. True satisfaction is to be found in accepting life as it is, instead of struggling to change it into something we imagine that we wish.

Stefan Stenudd

#15. The desire to change things must begin with accepting things as they are.

Marty Rubin

#16. By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.

Hal Elrod

#17. People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.

John Zorn

#18. Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.

Aubrey De Grey

#19. In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Phil McGraw

#20. Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

Edmund Phelps

#21. It's baffling why the issues relating to climate change - [which] have far more obvious and tangible and much more clear-cut evidence about the cause - have been slower for people to accept as a given.

Sylvia Earle

#22. When you look at something and think of all the ways you would change it, then you're not accepting it for what it is, nor are you truly appreciating it.

Tristesse Genevieve

#23. I just am a person who loves houses. In a way, it's dovetailed into one of the themes of The Unspeakable: Why do you have to change? Why don't you just accept that this is how you are? Why do you have to grow from an experience?

Meghan Daum

#24. I've learned that things change, people change, and it doesn't mean you forget the past or try to cover it up. It simply means that you move on and treasure the memories. Letting go doesn't mean giving up ... it means accepting that some things weren't meant to be.

Lisa Brooks

#25. Some people change. Most people don't. Accepting this makes it much harder for them to disappoint you.

Ingrid Weir

#26. Every time you accept the claim that you can't change human nature or you have to accept the way the world is, you are accepting the foundations of the worldview that grounded the ancien regime.

Susan Neiman

#27. I'm through accepting limits 'cause someone says they're so Some things I cannot change But till I try, I'll never know! Too long I've been afraid of Losing love I guess I've lost Well, if that's love It comes at much too high a cost!

Stephen Schwartz

#28. I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.

Salman Rushdie

#29. Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth.

Germany Kent

#30. As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.

Max McKeown

#31. No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment.

Kandyse McClure

#32. It's amazing how drastically your life can change when you stop accepting shit you hate.

Steve Maraboli

#33. Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

Allan Lokos

#34. Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.

Ray Noorda

#35. One of the most difficult things in life for any individual or business is to accept and adopt change.

Harvey MacKay

#36. I cannot see that keeping the status quo intact would help in any way to solve the problems of inequality or suffering in this world. I would go for taking action towards change instead of accepting the inevitable.

Elina Juusola

#37. Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

Greg Bear

#38. If you want to be educated and wise, you must open your heart, expand your mind, be accepting and ready to change.

Debasish Mridha

#39. It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

Christmas Humphreys

#40. For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.

Julia Butterfly Hill

#41. I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too.

Stephanie Nielson

#42. You can't change someone. The best thing you can do for someone is to just accept them.

Guy Wilson

#43. You live with someone until they accept that you are what you are, that you're not going to change and they love that about you - and then they decide to marry you, I guess.

Warwick Thornton

#44. People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.

Jean Monnet

#45. No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

T. S. Eliot

#46. Spirituality is about being able to see what's wrong with ourselves, accepting the idea that we can change, and then showing a willingness to actually transform ourselves.

Karen Berg

#47. Accepting your flaws is a hard thing to do when you're constantly reminded of them.

Auliq Ice

#48. If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better.

Dana Cowin

#49. Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

Elizabeth Edwards

#50. We have to accept as a society that games are not escapist. They really do change us.

Jane McGonigal

#51. Of course it was difficult accepting the change in TV trends. It all ended quite early for me. I was in my mid-30s, and I hadn't achieved everything I wanted. There's nothing on TV for people like me anymore. All they want are new young faces.

Bobby Davro

#52. If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.

Kathleen Norris

#53. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. If we try to change them, this means we don't really like them.

Miguel Ruiz

#54. You must accept something before you can change it.

Eben Pagan

#55. The moment that you accept life and your life as it is, is the moment that you will start to change your life and this magical life itself.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#56. Life is not about reward and punishment," said Xuen. "It is about understanding, accepting who oneself is right now, in order to know what to change, and how.

Christie Golden

#57. More people more accepting of civil unions and gay marriage, which our pollster said was the most significant change they've seen on any social issue. So, this country is changing in a way.

Norah O'Donnell

#58. We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.

Miguel Ruiz

#59. I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change ... I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

Angela Davis

#60. Don't wish that people would change. Accept them for who they are and keep on searching for your higher 'self

Matthew Donnelly

#61. I see a lot of people complaining about the things they can fix, and a lot of people being accepting of the things they cannot change.
Maybe tragedy really is the catastrophic event, for the way people view their lives.
I would rather be wise, than nieve.

Nikki Rowe

#62. I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

Liv Ullmann

#63. The key to accepting change is realizing the great things you have now, at this very moment in time, because one day I guarantee you'll look back on today and wish things were just as they are right now.

C.T. Wente

#64. The key to a successful marriage is accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words Yes, dear. Whatever you want.

Patrick Dempsey

#65. America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving.

Bryant McGill

#66. But people normally marry, and then they want that locked in time, so they think they're not going to change. We're going to change. Everybody's going to change. So accepting that changes are part of our lives makes marriage a blessing and not a curse, because love is stronger than anything else.

Paulo Coelho

#67. There have been times in my life I prayed for change.

For rescue.

For strength.

For answers.

There have been times in my life I blamed others for everything that went wrong, bypassing accepting responsibility, because it was easier.

Kim Holden

#68. One of the greatest challenge in life is not having an attitude but knowing or accepting that you have one

Ikechukwu Izuakor

#69. For a long time, the Court has moved toward outlawing all forms of racial preference, including affirmative action, and Obama seems accepting, even supportive, of the change.

Jeffrey Toobin