Accepting Things Quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

- W. Somerset Maugham

source: The Mixture as Before "The Treasure" (1940)

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Inspirational Determination, Cute Life

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

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

- Deepak Chopra

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

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

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

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

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Buddhist, Atheist, Believe, Inspirational Buddhist, Spoken Word

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

- Byron Katie

topic: Sister, Daughter, Brother, Humorous Birthday, Small Gods

My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.

- Benoit Mandelbrot

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: People, Choices, Complicated, Accepting Things

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

- Haruki Murakami

source: Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.149, Random House

topic: Reality, Leaving, Principles, Accepting Things, Things That Are Hard

It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: "Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think," and the like.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

topic: Hate, Thinking, Down And, Accepting Things

Well I can tell you that for me generally speaking that I think things that I deal with are all to do with not accepting things, not excepting life on life's terms. My life becomes a lot easier when I'm willing to just accept. I don't have to like circumstances as they are, but I have to accept them and that's where I always seem to get thrown, when I try to will my way instead of accept things the way they are.

- Matt Dillon

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Thinking, Trying, Way, Accepting Things

Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.

- Alexander McCall Smith

topic: Art, Acceptance, Thinking, Accepting Things