Quotes About Accepting Whatever Happens

#1. With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.

Robert Rauschenberg

#2. The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

Sakyong Mipham

#3. Your assignment is to love everyone, accepting all that happens to you.

Thomas A Kempis

#4. It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.

Markus Zusak

#5. T happens in all human affairs that we never seek to escape one mischief without falling into another. Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage, and in accepting a less evil as a good.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#6. What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.

Georges St-Pierre

#7. You may forget the toys you buy and break, but you'll always remember the experiences and memories you create.

Richie Norton

#8. I had joined Marvel in 1967, after a year in Vietnam and three years as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Stan Lee, then the editor-in-chief, hired me as a production assistant.

Herb Trimpe

#9. An alcoholic 47-year-old woman with teenagers who thinks a guy in his mid-20s is a good prospect as a partner definitely has some judgment and character flaws.

Emily Yoffe

#10. Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.

Ben Lerner

#11. Our true nature is steady, receptive, and accepting of everything that happens, including our own misguided conclusions and behaviors.

Gina Lake

#12. You're no longer fighting God, trying to make Him do what you want. You're accepting what happens, and your main prayer transforms into one that asks God for nothing more than understanding and perhaps strength to endure.

Amy Welborn

#13. Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.

Eckhart Tolle

#14. Better to accept whatever happens.

Horace

#15. Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass!
The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!

Milan Kundera

#16. 'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

Phil Collins

#17. I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy.

Lisa Yuskavage

#18. Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it.

Ogden Nash

#19. He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it.

Harry Turtledove

#20. When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

Teresa Of Avila

#21. The only thing you can do is prepare the best you can and then just accept ... stuff happens.

Carlos Condit

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

Epictetus

#23. 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

#24. Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.

Mick Jagger

#25. Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.

Dan Millman

#26. 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