Quotes About Accepting What You Can't Control

#1. Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes. - Author: Madeleine L'Engle

#2. 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. - Author: Michael Brooks

#3. 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. - Author: Cilla Black

#4. You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die. - Author: Joaquin Andujar

#5. No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might - but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them. - Author: Barack Obama

#6. 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 - Author: Brenda Wilhelmson

#7. Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty. - Author: Ali MacGraw

#8. Once you shake hands with the devil, you have to accept they are in control. - Author: Alex Ferguson

#9. 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. - Author: Kurt Vonnegut

#10. How can such impoverished children laugh? How can prisoners sing with joy? They rise above by accepting that certain events are beyond their control and beyond their understanding too, and then focusing instead on what they can understand and control. - Author: Nick Vujicic

#11. The whole world is waiting. The whole world needs you. - Author: Sally Field

#12. Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter. - Author: Ogwo David Emenike

#13. And, with a kiss, Shahrzad let herself fall.
For the boy who was an impossible, improbable study in contrasts. The boy who burned her life to cinder, only to remake of it a world unlike any she had ever known. - Author: Renee Ahdieh

#14. One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It's hard to unlearn such hierarchy, to undo such control. It's implicit. - Author: Cliff James

#15. Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances. - Author: Linda Dillow

#16. The true key, if you want to live an unstoppable life, then you need to take 100% control of your life. Stop blaming others for your failures and faults and start accepting responsibility for your life. - Author: Thomas Narofsky

#17. So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail. - Author: Teju Cole

#18. Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. - Author: David Richo

#19. The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good or not, was totally on me and I could accept that. It was entirely mine. - Author: Amber Tamblyn

#20. I just say whatever I want to whoever I want whenever I want wherever I want however I want. - Author: Eminem

#21. It's depressing a little when you don't see outside the tour bus and underground in a stadium. If you go outside near the venue there are lots of fans everywhere so you can't just have a minute to enjoy the sunshine alone and think. - Author: LeCrae

#22. She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies. - Author: Margaret Sanger

#23. It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go doesn't mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle for control. - Author: Iyanla Vanzant

#24. 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. - Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#25. Jealousy, anger, fear - these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that life knows what is best, accepting with an even mind whatever is presented to you. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#26. Are you able to open to the possibility that what you want is not what you need right now? If it was what you needed it would be in your life, right now, and it would come effortlessly. - Author: Kelly Martin

#27. I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time. - Author: Daryl Hall

#28. Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element of discomfort, but there also is a level of stability because you are voluntarily accepting pain. It gives you a sense of confidence. - Author: Dalai Lama

#29. 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. - Author: David McRaney

#30. Ground Control to Major Spazz. Can you hear me, Major Spazz? - Author: Tammy Blackwell

#31. What you cannot control, you must accept. - Author: Frank Herbert

#32. A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,
Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.
It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad. - Author: William Butler Yeats