Top 100 Quotes About Accepting Things
#1. I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance.
Tom Lehman
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. The desire to change things must begin with accepting things as they are.
Marty Rubin
#5. Enduring means accepting. Accepting things as they are and not as you would wish them to be, and then looking ahead, not behind.
Rafael Nadal
#6. Accepting things. That's what the talk was about. About how insane it is to try to pretend something isn't a certain way, or that you can make it another way, just because you don't like it.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#7. You can't believe everything you read - or hear. Accepting things at face value without the need to question and dig deeper is ignorance at best, stupidity at worst.
Vivian Eve
#8. He had a method of accepting things, without questioning the why and wherefore.
Jack London
#9. It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: "Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think," and the like.
Michel De Montaigne
#10. That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.
David Burr Gerrard
#11. She had learned to keep her sanity by accepting things as she found them, adapting herself to new circumstances by putting aside the old ones whose memories might overwhelm her. She
Octavia E. Butler
#12. One of the more sophisticated and accepting things about Europe, when it came to difficult decisions regarding sexual identity, was that the Europeans were so used to sexual differences that they had already begun to make fun of them.
John Irving
#13. That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.
Haruki Murakami
#14. Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving ... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.
Alexander McCall Smith
#15. And it occurred to her that she was so used to turning over everything in her mind, as if each thought were an intricate shell found at the beach, that she had never truly known the value of simply accepting things as they were.
Jacqueline Winspear
#16. We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
John Fowles
#17. 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
#18. One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
Robert Frost
#19. Depression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them.
Chloe Thurlow
#20. By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at all. You still can respond when action is needed, but you can be free, internally, of events.
Eckhart Tolle
#21. To be patient is simply to be completely open to each moment, accepting it in its fullness, knowing that, like the butterfly, things can only unfold in their own time.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#22. But then, he calls many things mad that he does not care for. Perhaps that is easier than accepting them.
Philip Sington
#23. 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
#24. Of all the comforting objects in this world, few things are as reassuring and accepting as books.
Drea Damara
#25. I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.
Roman Polanski
#26. 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
#27. What love will make you do
All the things that we accept
Be the things that we regret
Ashanti
#28. Sometimes it felt like looking at his face and just accepting the way things were between us was the hardest thing in the world.
Karina Halle
#29. I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy ... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
Jose Mujica
#30. Things can change if you stop accepting the unacceptable.
Jeanette Coron
#31. 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
#32. We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
Tony Abbott
#33. There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you consent to an internal six county settlement and if you are willing to negotiate the state of Irish society with a foreign government.
Gerry Adams
#34. Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.
Walter Abish
#35. In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.
Joan Halifax
#36. Accept that things happen. It may not be for a reason, and you may have no control over it, but the first step to getting through it is accepting what it is.
Kurt Vonnegut
#37. I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.
Matt Taibbi
#38. Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides
Carl Jung
#39. People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.
Marcus Aurelius
#40. It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.
Jamie Dornan
#41. Readiness is a type of choice, being prepared and accepting of things to come...
Sara Raasch
#42. 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
#43. It is very important, while you are young, to be real revolutionaries - which means not accepting anything, but inquiring into all these things to find out what is true. Only then can you create a new world.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. There are three things I commit to on a daily basis: Exercising for an hour a day, tops. Never skipping meals. And accepting the size and shape I was born with.
Paula Abdul
#47. I have heard that this pain can be converted, as it were, by accepting "the fundamental impermanence of all things." This acceptance bewilders me: sometimes it seems an act of will; at others, of surrender.
Maggie Nelson
#48. Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.
Baba Hari Dass
#49. I'm getting into all sorts of L.A. things. I go to bikram yoga, I went to an astrologer recently ... I'm accepting L.A. for who she is. She's a dark temptress.
Casey Wilson
#50. I'm never satisfied. I can always find things that I can do better and go further on, so I force myself to accept when someone says, "We have it, it's good and we can move on."
Noomi Rapace
#51. When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up.
Lu Yen-hsun
#52. I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.
Sylvia Plath
#53. Think your own way through things, accept what is true for you, discard the rest.
L. Ron Hubbard
#54. There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.
Alfred Stieglitz
#55. The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.
Rajneesh
#56. It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is this in a democracy?
Vincent Massey
#57. Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.
Robert Baker Aitken
#58. One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle.
Natalie Portman
#59. When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity.
EL Seed
#60. There is something wonderful in accepting someone else's flaws especially when it gives you the chance to accept your own and see that those flaws are the things that make us human.
Jenny Lawson
#61. 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
#62. The best thing you can do for yourself is to accept other people's behavior and the choices they make. You may not agree with them, you may even wish them to do things differently, but accept it. Just as you would appreciate other people accepting the choices that you make.
Jennifer O'Neill
#63. Accept your life and what it brings, I know tomorrow you find better things.
Ray Davies
#65. 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
#66. Being loved and accepting love are two completely different things. It's my job to continue to show it to you. All you have to do is accept it, little by little.
Tijan
#67. In his mother's honor, vowing not to commit the "fashionable stupidity" of ignoring things he didn't understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dreams might be exactly what they seemed: real.
Sol Luckman
#68. Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.
Julian Baggini
#69. Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture, everywhere. It's just accepting that we don't know everything and everything is possible.
Isabel Allende
#70. There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.
Emmylou Harris
#71. Strength doesn't necessarily come from resisting fear, weakness, or any other feeling and overcoming it. Strength comes from looking at those things straight on
and accepting them as they really are.
Kat Von D.
#72. Loving someone means accepting all the things and people that person loves, too.
Colleen Hoover
#73. 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
#74. I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.
Barack Obama
#75. You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.
Minnie Maddern Fiske
#76. 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
#77. One of the most difficult things in life for any individual or business is to accept and adopt change.
Harvey MacKay
#78. I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it ... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.
Anne Ford
#79. accepting "They are just not your tribe." Your tribe will love and support you, and be there when you need them. So many things were starting to
June Matthews
#80. The world we think we see is only a view, a collective description of the world that we create through our belief systems. Accepting this fact seems to be one of the most empowering things one can do.
David Wolfe
#81. What I really, hugely, and antagonistically dislike is the attempt to quantify the unquantifiable. And if you are a branding consultant, you have to accept that there are a lot of things you just cannot quantify.
Wally Olins
#82. HOPE AND EXPECTATION ARE NOT THE SAME THING, THOUGH BOTH WILL LEAD TO DISAPPOINTMENT. EXIST IN THE MOMENT, ACCEPTING ALL THINGS AS THEY ARE, NOT AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM BE.
Mark T. Barnes
#83. He rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families ...
George Eliot
#84. I'm better at accepting the people who don't have nice things to say about me anonymously, but until you've experienced it, you don't understand how much it can affect you and mess with your mind.
Steve Grand
#85. You can't change someone. The best thing you can do for someone is to just accept them.
Guy Wilson
#86. Letting things go doesn't mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be
N.a.
#87. It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#88. If you want crappy things to stop happening to you, then stop accepting crap and demand something more. - CRISTINA YANG, GREY'S ANATOMY
Shonda Rhimes
#89. You have to accept the way things are before you can move on.
Jack Kornfield
#90. I don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems like an interesting way to do a show. I've always thought that it's interesting to watch people work things out on stage.
Fiona Apple
#91. Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.
Dolly Parton
#92. It's not just about me. It's about all of us accepting one another. We're all different. It's not a bad thing. It's a good thing.
Bruce Jenner
#93. Clearly, audiences are very accepting of A-list talent both giving them what they want - Tom Hanks is the most classic example - and then going on, from time to time, to do things that are unexpected. That's part of what makes people want to go to the movies and not just sit home.
Mark Canton
#94. I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change ... I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
Angela Davis
#95. Loving someone doesn't just include that person, Ben. Loving someone means accepting all the things and people that person loves, too. And I will. I do. I promise.
Colleen Hoover
#96. It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#97. 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
#98. The things you learn from sports - setting goals, being part of a team, confidence - that's invaluable. It's not about trophies and ribbons. It's about being on time for practice, accepting challenges and being fearful of the elements.
Summer Sanders
#99. I've heard all sorts of things about a kiss (melting, fireworks, music), but no one ever told me it's a conversation: asking, accepting, deciding, inviting, giving ... Questions posed and answered.
Katherine Reay
#100. 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
