Anthony Kiedis Quotes

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up…and forgive

I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I have come to terms with all the complications of my life.

There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does...and that someone is me

I’m trying to accept where I’m at, not run from it.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

I would say I'm quite happy in my life the majority of the time. Earlier in my life I was more questioning, overly trying to figure things out. I like this way much better.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

You learn to accept your own reality.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

I came to love, I came into my own.

Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

For me, it really is about the self-acceptance... the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.

I used to dislike it, but now I like it more and more, feeling small. I like feeling like a little speck.

As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

I've gotten to the point where I've gotten comfortable with my awkwardness.