Top 1200 Accepting Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Taking ownership of your happiness has two aspects: Accepting that being happy is up to you and that you have the ability and power to be happier by changing your habits. Taking "response-ability": responding to all the events in your life in a way that supports your happiness.

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

Grief is accepting the reality of what is. That is grief's job and purpose-to allow us to come to terms with the way things really are, so that we can move on. Grief is a gift of God. Without it, we would all be condemned to a life of continually denying reality, arguing or protesting against reality, and never growing from the realities we experience.

I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.

Accepting help is its own kind of strength.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving

If you've got the chops, people these days are more accepting of you.

Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible.

Healing is the process of accepting all, then choosing best.

America's strength is that it is capable of accepting people into its communities.

We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

... accepting and feeling sympathy and love is not so healing as giving it.

I think accepting an instruction is part of a player's responsibility.

I don't like accepting things at face value.

I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.

Surrender means accepting this moment, this body, and this life with open arms. Surrender involves getting out of your own way and living in accord with a higher will, expressed as the wisdom of the heart. Far more than passive acceptance, surrender uses every challenge as a means of spiritual growth and expanded awareness.

Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience.

I've met some very difficult people and I've had some very difficult conversations and had lots of criticism, especially from away supporters who sing songs that aren't very pleasant. So I think part and parcel of life is accepting that not everyone likes you.

True generosity means accepting ingratitude.

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.

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

L.A. is the most accepting city I've ever been in.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?

The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of mathematics, and that theory entails that numbers exist, then you have ample reason to accept that numbers exist. The argument affirms the antecedent of this conditional, and concludes that you have ample reason to believe that numbers exist. What is striking about this argument is that it seems to show that the empirical reasons that suffice for accepting a scientific theory also suffice for accepting a metaphysical claim.

Happiness comes from accepting the present situation, whether it is something you wish to savor as long as possible or change as quickly as you can. Neither is possible without acceptance as the starting point, because without acceptance you are living on the periphery of your life. There at the edges, you can't fully enjoy the good stuff or do anything about the rest.

Rivaldo was fundamental for me accepting the challenge in Bunyodkor.

but accepting help doesn?t have to mean giving up control.

I believe people, especially women, have become more accepting of who they are.

'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

I'm very accepting of how people live their lives.

Accepting responsibility is the fulcrum point for succeeding at anything.

It's not attractive to be talking down about yourself all the time. All you continue to do to yourself is pull yourself further down into a deeper place of depression and sadness and insecurity and fear and hopelessness, so it's like, having God in your life is important, accepting who you are is important, regardless of what you look like.

Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition has solved more important problems than its rivals, then accepting that tradition is rational precisely to the degree that we are aiming to "progress," i.e., to maximize the scope f solved problems. In other words, the choice of one tradition over its rivals is a progressive (and thus a rational) choice precisely to the extent that the chosen tradition is a better problem solver than its rivals.

In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others.

If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.

No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for not accepting his proposal without enquiring into his person or character; on the contrary, he must think her the weakest of all creatures in the world, as the rate of men now goes; in short, he must have a very contemptible opinion of her capacities, nay, even of her understanding, that having but one cast for her life, shall cast that life away at once, and make matrimony like death, be a leap in the dark.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

While accepting donations, no one looks at the colour of money.

There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.

While accepting a film, my co-star is my last priority.

Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.

Victor Stone's story is one of acceptance - of self and others. Also, accepting his father for the person he once was, absent from his life until he turned him into Cyborg. And acceptance of oneself in that he is both Cyborg and Victor Stone simultaneously.

I've learned a lot just being around people who grew up so differently from me, which is cool. It teaches you how to be a lot more tolerant. The bigger your world is, the more tolerant and accepting you become, because you have friends from all walks of life. You learn to be a little bit less selfish.

Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities - good and bad.

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

We're not very accepting of people who act strangely.

We can only receive what our minds are capable of accepting.