Accepting Life Quotes:

What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Mean, Giving, Firsts, Accepting Life

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Change, Accepting, Unchangeable, Some People Never Change, Positive Change

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

- Melody Beattie

source: Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

topic: Inspirational, Thankful, Gratitude, Make Things Right, I Am Thankful

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

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Best Is Yet To Come, Waiting For Something

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

- Bette Davis

topic: Courage, Self Confidence, Keys, Daily Challenges, Life Challenges

All pain in life comes from wishing things were different than they are. Conversely, peace and happiness must come from accepting life as it is and breaking through the barriers of illusion to do so... All things that we label good or bad often hold in them surprises if we stay open. Each of us has choice in how we interpret life's events and in this way we are each responsible for our own reality.

- Kristine Carlson

topic: Pain, Reality, Choices, Pain In Life, Accepting Life

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Change, Powerful, Times Have Changed, Time 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

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

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

Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.

- John Spence

topic: Being Yourself, Thinking, Choices, Life Is Changing, My Life Is Changing

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

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

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, When Things Go Wrong, Times Have Changed

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

- Andre Gide

source: "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Courage To Change, Times Have Changed

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Change, Meaningful, Make The Right Choice, Courage To Change

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

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Time To Move On, Times Have Changed

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

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

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Change, Success, Managing Change, Some People Never Change

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Managing Change, Change Management

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

- Natalie Imbruglia

source: Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

topic: Reality, Insanity, Humorous Birthday, Hurting You, Gold Digger

If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.

- John Gibbons

topic: Change, Life Changing, Darkness Within, Managing Change, Some People Never Change

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Life, Positive, Moving On, Inspirational Moving On, Live In The Now

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

- Tim Field

topic: Silence, Victim, Bullied, Live For Yourself, Definition Of Beauty

Freedom isn't the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the inherent limits set in place by nature. By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, you become truly free.

- Epictetus

topic: Fighting, Understanding, Limits, Inevitability, Accepting Life

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Self Esteem, Inspiring Self Esteem, Old Self

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

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

- Harvey Fierstein

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Positive, Individuality, Theatre, Live For Yourself, Just Being You

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

- Harvey Fierstein

topic: Beautiful, Being Yourself, Freedom, Live For Yourself, Definition Of Beauty

By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

- Epictetus

topic: Fighting, Limits, Accepting, Accepting Life

Perhaps the highest goodness attainable is a life of service to all mankind. Such an ideal is supported in nearly every page in the Gospels-the parables, the sermons, and the countless acts of service by our Lord Himself. The ideal is not limited to any particular kind of service, nor a given quantity of service. The ideal is accepting life itself as a trust to be used in the welfare of mankind. It is a life that is glad for the chance to be of any help, an attitude that 'service is the rent we pay for our own room on earth.' (Lord Halifax)

- Obert C. Tanner

topic: Attitude, Rooms, Earth, Halifax, Acts Of Service

the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.

- Anthony de Mello

topic: Lying, Age, Accepting, Accepting Life

The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech - it is a gift from heart to heart.

- Willa Cather

source: Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Notebook, Attitude, Heart, Accepting Life, Idiom

I'm convinced true fulfillment is living in God's world one day at a time, savoring it, leaving today's disapointments behind and borrowing no troubles from tomorrow. It's done not only by accepting life, fever, and things that go bump in the night, but also by cultivating love and new and old friendships, and especially by finding a new work or project that makes it exciting just to get up in the morning.

- Olive Ann Burns

topic: Morning, Night, Leaving, Savoring, Old Friendship

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

source: FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Dec 13, 2009

topic: Letting Go, Pain, Emotional, Emotional Pain, Accepting Life