Acceptance Quotes - Page 5

I have learned to live with it all... whatever happens ... all of it.

Edelgard

There is no such thing as pure pleasure some anxiety always goes with it.

Ovid

If a ship has been sunk I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides if I let those things get me I wouldn't last long.

Admiral Ernest J. King

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.

Dōgen

Acceptance says True this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblink-ingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.

Catharine Marshall

Man is a pliant animal a being who gets accustomed to anything.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing.

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.

Katherine Mansfield

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield I have learned is to come back again.

Lao Tzu

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Anonymous

And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. ... I can find no serenity until I accept that person place thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.

Alcoholics Anonymous

Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.

Anonymous

To oppose something is to maintain it.

Ursula K. LeGuin

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Often the prudent far from making their destinies succumb to them.

Voltaire

Things past redress are now with me past care.

William Shakespeare

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

Louise Nevelson

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

Boethius

No rose without a thorn.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Dr. Alexis Carrel

If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.

Abigail Van Buren

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do it's something you allow.

Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.

Anonymous

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

Carl Jung

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Vincent van Gogh

He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Charles Baudelaire

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

Michel de Montaigne

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another not because he does not feel them but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

The mind which renounces once and forever a futile hope has its compensations in ever-growing calm.

George R. Gissing

I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.

Thornton Wilder

I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken as well as those outside.

The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

Hazel Henderson

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Carl Jung

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.

Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance.

Henry S. Haskins

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

Horace

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

If you cast away one cross you will certainly find another and perhaps a heavier.

Thomas à Kempis

Science says: "We must live " and seeks the means of prolonging increasing facilitating and amplifying life of making it tolerable and acceptable wisdom says: "We must die " and seeks how to make us die well.

Miguel de Unamuno

True freedom lies in the realization and calm acceptance of the fact that there may very well be no perfect answer.

Allen Reid McGinnis

Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.

Life is not always what one wants it to be but to make the best of it as it is is the only way of being happy.

Jennie Jerome Churchill

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm ... to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.

Flannery O'Connor

Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.

Denis de Rougemont

Happiness comes from within a man from some curious adjustment to life.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

J. C. F. von Schiller

Contentment and indeed usefulness comes as the infallible result of great acceptances great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Thornton Wilder

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

T.S Eliot

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