Browsing Topic Best Accepting Quotes

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.

Love yourself. Accept yourself. Forgive yourself and be good to yourself because, without you, the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises.

Our hearts do not need logic. They can love and forgive and accept that which our minds cannot comprehend. Hearts understand in ways minds cannot.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.

I have not asked for life.
But I try to accept whatever
life brings without surprise.
And I shall depart again without having
questioned anyone about my strange
stay here on earth.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality… become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

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

Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction, or limitation.

When you accept and appreciate yourself you can handle any situation with class, dignity and respect.

Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we’re all less than perfect.

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.