Quotes About Accepting Things As They Are

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

Marty Rubin

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Compassion basically means accepting people's frailties, their weaknesses, not expecting them to behave like gods. That expectation is cruelty.

Osho

#5. 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

#6. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Jane Austen

#8. Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.

Vladimir Putin

#9. 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

#10. Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings.

Danielle Steel

#11. It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.

Sharon Stone

#12. Feel what the wave is doing, then accept its energy.

Patrick Swayze

#13. To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

Tommy Douglas

#14. Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.

Madeleine L'Engle

#15. To the birds, I assume it must've been very much like accepting a ride from a stranger, only to get in the back of the van to find several murdered hikers who were being made into lamp shades. My

Jenny Lawson

#16. Kids who have been tossed around some, we just want to be accepted. And who is the most accepting group on a school campus? The troublemakers. It may not be right, but sometimes it's as close to right as we can find.

Jenny B. Jones

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

Jean Anouilh

#18. If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

Sarah Dessen

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

Robert Frost

#20. Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in?

Jeaniene Frost

#21. I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

Roman Polanski

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Baba Hari Dass

#25. 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.

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

Peter Adejimi

#29. I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.

Lena Olin

#30. I have never earned one penny from any pharmaceutical company. I will never accept one penny from them either. Ever.

Michael Specter

#31. And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting -
In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

Alberto Caeiro

#32. 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

#33. I love to say "please" and you have to accept me that way. If you don't, it's your problem.

Rajashree Choudhury

#34. Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.

Pierre Bourdieu

#35. Reaffirming their Western identity and Westerners accepting their civilization as unique not universal and uniting to renew and preserve it against challenges from non-Western societies.

Samuel P. Huntington

#36. Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.

Janet Macunovich

#37. Care for your infant business or career as you would care for your infant child - with loving attention, with no expectation of any reward, being in the moment with it, accepting it as is, watching it grow, enjoying every step of the way.

Marc Allen

#38. Somebody's on a man hunt. And she's accepting all applicants with a big wallet, a penis, and a beating heart. Good luck with that.

Kim Holden

#39. Be accepting. Of everything. People's differences, their similarities, their choices, their personalities. Sometimes it takes a variety to make a good collection. The same goes for people.

Colleen Hoover

#40. We easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I shall call 'Potted Thinking'.

Susan Stebbing

#41. Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting.
Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.

Cheri Huber

#42. Stress comes from the fear of the unknown; tranquility comes from accepting the unknown with love and joy.

Debasish Mridha

#43. When people are not accepting toward themselves they
are often obsessed with acceptance by others.

Nathaniel Branden

#44. There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#45. A big part of being a well-adjusted person is accepting that you can't be good at everything.

Kelly Williams Brown

#46. Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.

Malcolm Forbes

#47. I am a feminist, and I didn't think women would accept a throwback heroine.

Linda Woolverton

#48. Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.

Edwin Louis Cole

#49. 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

#50. I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

Amy Adams

#51. We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

John Fowles

#52. Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

Franz Kafka