Acceptance And Change Quotes:

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

- Laozi

topic: Life, Change, Spiritual, Way In Life, Natural Things

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

- Carl Jung

topic: Change, Acceptance, Thoughtful, Managing Change, Memories Dreams Reflections

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

- Denis Waitley

topic: Change, Positive, Responsibility, Make Your Own Choices, Inspiration And Life

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

- James A. Baldwin

source: "As Much Truth As One Can Bear". The New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1962.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Leadership, Managing Change, Leadership And Change

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

- Carl Rogers

topic: Change, Appreciation, Self, Congruence, Radical Acceptance

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

- Viktor E. Frankl

source: Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

topic: Change, Positive, Inspiring, Mans Search For Meaning, Times Have Changed

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

- Paul Tournier

source: Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”

topic: Life, Change, Running, Heredity, Acceptance And Change

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

- Alan Watts

source: Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

topic: Motivational, Change, Moving On, Adaptability, Eye Opening

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1906). “Longfellow Day by Day”

topic: Nature, Rain, Garden, Monsoons, Being Accepted

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Inspirational, Change, Wise, Inspirational Harry Potter, First Steps

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

- Mary Engelbreit

topic: Thinking, Way, Live For Yourself, Good Thoughts, My Attitude

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Differences, Prayer Changes Things, Courage To Change

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.35, New World Library

topic: Life, Live In The Moment, Moments, Mindful Living, Stillness Speaks

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

- Shunryu Suzuki

topic: Change, Perfect, Worry, Managing Change, Transience

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

- Joan Wallach Scott

topic: Change, Conflict, Moments, Starting Anew, Acceptance And Change

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Change, Welcome, Rulers, Starting Anew, Life And Change

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

- Arthur Rubinstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Formula For Success, Acceptance And Change

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Gratitude, Art, Acceptance, Acceptance And Change, Acceptance Of Others

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

- Henri Bergson

source: Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Managing Change, Times Have Changed

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

- Nathaniel Branden

source: Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.37, Hachette UK

topic: Change, Acceptance, Second Chance, Resistance To Change, Positive Change

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

- Michael Jordan

source: "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

topic: Motivational, Change, Basketball, Favorite Sports, Young Entrepreneurs

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Change, Chaos, Some People Never Change, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Change

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

- Confucius

topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Wheel Of Life, Chinese Philosophy

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

- Anatole France

source: Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.186, Anatole France

topic: Life, Change, Spirituality, Resistance To Change, Times Have Changed

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

- Jamie Lee Curtis

topic: Happiness, Moving, Acceptance, Acceptance And Change

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

- Michael J. Fox

source: "What I've Learned: Michael J. Fox" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2007.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Parkinson's, Acceptance And Change

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

- Washington Irving

topic: Change, Comfort, Relief, Stagecoaches, Life Is Changing

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.

- Washington Irving

source: 'Tales of a Traveller' (1824) 'To the Reader'

topic: Change, Life Changing, People Changing, Stagecoaches, Life Is Changing