Quotes About Accepting Life As It Is

#1. 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

#2. When you say "yes" to the "isness" of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.

Luther Standing Bear

#4. love can give you is how to live a complete life by accepting its incomplete ways.

Novoneel Chakraborty

#5. 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

#6. The process of letting go is an act of accepting.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

#8. It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#9. The essence if hope is accepting uncertainty.

Debasish Mridha

#10. 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

#11. The moment a student gives up his right of personal judgment, he is in for accepting all the humbugs of life

Lin Yutang

#12. I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

Richard P. Feynman

#13. To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.

Robert Breault

#14. And by not accepting what we've been created to accomplish, we'll never feel fully satisfied with what we do accomplish in life.

Chris Durso

#15. My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.

Jason Mraz

#16. Accepting and appreciating heart brings abundance in life but gratitude acknowledge and dance with joy of receiving.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life ... What is its texture, the weight of our suffering? What is its meaning? Begin by touching it, by coming close to it, accepting it: Hello, suffering, I am here with you. I am beside you, one with you, I am you. I am suffering.

A.M. Homes

#18. The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural and linguistic heritage that can enrich his parent's life as it will his own.

Harlan Lane

#19. I guess just accepting failure is the thing. I don't really look at it as a failure. I look at them as learning lessons and things you grow from but not really a failure, because that's life.

Daniella Alonso

#20. To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.

Robin Sharma

#21. The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.

Laozi

#22. I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with lots of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be.

Amy Poehler

#23. 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

#24. Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary it means accepting it as it comes ... To accept is to say yes to life in its entirety.

Paul Tournier

#25. If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.

Thich Thien-An

#26. I love life, Eleanor. It is that simple. Had I the choice, I would live forever, accepting pain and loss as my due and learning
across time
even to appreciate the sharp seasoning of this sadness.

Dan Simmons

#27. The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet.

J. Raymond

#28. The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life,

Mildred Fay Jefferson

#29. I think failure is just a part of life. You can't avoid it in anything. I just accept it as a part of life and something that's going to happen, and you use it to grow. You use it, you learn from it, and you grow from it.

Daniella Alonso

#30. Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it's also a soaring spiritual experience.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#31. Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.

Rajneesh

#32. 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

#33. Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.

Baba Hari Dass

#34. When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Epictetus

#35. Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

Itzhak Perlman

#36. It would seem that very few good things in life come from our accepting the present moment as it is. To become educated, we must be motivated to learn. To master a sport requires that we continually improve our performance and overcome our resistance to physical exertion. To

Sam Harris

#37. Love is not blind. Infatuation is blind. Love is all-seeing and still accepting.

Anamika Mishra

#38. Studies show that neurotic and psychiatric disorders are more common among those who attempt to keep conscious control of life and suppress its unwelcome quirks. Sanity, paradoxically, may lie in accepting that you are not in control.

Michael Brooks

#39. Frankly, accepting the family's unique qualities has done wonders to help my own sanity.

Carly Philips

#40. Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never.

Charles Hugh Smith

#41. Love isn't jealous. It's kind and patient. It's accepting--it's late night talks and early morning kisses. It's arguing and making up. It's life with the one you can't live without.

Marquita Valentine

#42. 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.

Gangaji

#43. If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#44. The only time you will fear anything is when you say no and resist the universe. You may have heard the expression "Go with the flow." This means consciously accepting what is happening in your life.

Susan Jeffers

#45. The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.

Jann Arden

#46. Those who choose love - daring to feel to the depths of being, accepting responsibility for their actions, and seeking a purpose in life - will find that the world of significant living will unfold its cleverly concealed presence.

Barbara Marciniak

#47. 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

#48. I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

Tony Abbott

#49. One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

Robert Frost

#50. Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Jean Anouilh

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

Jane Austen

#52. By acknowledging and accepting the ultimate commonality, we can naturally and voluntarily develop the attitude of compassion and benevolence toward other people, other life-forms, and all beings. We will want to live for the good of all because we know that's the way we benefit ourselves, too.

Ilchi Lee

#53. Everything is acceptable until we stop accepting them.

Peter Adejimi

#54. The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

Bette Davis

#55. SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND. DON'T BE WILLING TO ACCEPT AN ORDINARY LIFE.

Salle Merrill Redfield

#56. Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack in everyday life. Then you can take comfort in knowing they'll do it for you, as well. Accepting each other, flaws and all, is what love is all about.

Gaelen Foley

#57. Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws but because we let go of seeking perfection and, instead, seek God, the one who is present in the tangledness of our lives.

Mike Yaconelli

#58. To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.

M.C. Escher

#59. But then it occured to him that any progress he had made on his quest so far he had made by accepting the help that had been offered to him.

Neil Gaiman

#60. Maybe maturity is merely accepting the tally of all the disappearing options of life.

Miguel Syjuco

#61. What love will make you do
All the things that we accept
Be the things that we regret

Ashanti

#62. A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

Whittaker Chambers

#63. If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#64. Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it.

Tan Twan Eng

#65. My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#66. Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition

Julian Baggini

#67. I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.

Cilla Black

#68. What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.

Thomas Merton

#69. 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

#70. I think writing is like ministry. You get this call and you run before accepting it. If you run right to it, there's a good chance you were not called.

Robin Caldwell