Quotes About Accepting Loss

#1. Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.

Dean Koontz

#2. That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#3. He had hours of paperwork ahead of him. All this paper would one day be the downfall of the Empire.

Arthur Slade

#4. Because the reality of death has not yet penetrated awareness, survivors can appear to be quite accepting of the loss.

Joan Didion

#5. Any extended period of negative emotions can lead to you giving in to despair and accepting your fate. If you remain alone for a long time, you will decide loneliness is a fact of life and pass up opportunities to hang out with people. The loss of control in any situation can lead to this state.

David McRaney

#6. It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.

Sunny-Drunk

#7. Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.

Jane Fonda

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses.

Vince Young

#11. Jehovah is guarding all those loving him, But all the wicked ones he will annihilate.

David

#12. Accepting all that is given to me and all that is taken away. Recognizing that even loss and pain are gifts.

Marian Keyes

#13. Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.

Colleen McCullough

#14. Ixion's not a place for friends. They die or they leave. On Ixion you need allies.

Marianne De Pierres

#15. 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

#16. Grieving a loss is accepting the hole. And sometimes the pain of accepting the hole is greater than the pain of the thing that once occupied the hole.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

Richard M. Weaver

#18. As this pain comes up also focus on the love you feel for him/her. Focus on the love. Love feels good, love is expansive. Love is open and accepting. This love you feel is healing the pain of your loss. One day soon your pain will go and only the love will remain.

John Gray

#19. Lick the alphabet. It makes you appear creative, it's an easy diagram to remember, it's like aaaaa ... beeeee ... ceeee.

Sam Kinison

#20. Accepting the loss of a loved one is difficult. But reconciling with the living is just as important.

Edie Claire

#21. Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.

Eckhart Tolle

#22. The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.

Karl Lagerfeld

#23. Nature does not abandon us. Rather, it helps us in accepting our loss, grief and pain. It stays with us, even cries with us. It gifts us openings, may be more than once, to heal, transcend and re-emerge. (Page xii)

Neena Verma

#24. I grew up accepting the inevitability that once you became a woman, you were always on a diet. Being a woman equaled loss.

Cathy Alter

#25. Living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case, mere possibilities of improvement.

Vladimir Nabokov

#26. As long as the egoism is alive, 'my-ness' remains within the self.

Dada Bhagwan