Acceptance Quotes - Page 6

I accept life unconditionally. ... Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Arthur Rubinstein

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If you are wise live as you can if you cannot live as you would.

Baltasar Gracián

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

Olive Schreiner

For this is wisdom: to live to take what fate or the Gods may give.

Acceptance and Work If you have a job without aggravations you don't have a job.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

James Russell Lowell

Trouble will come soon enough and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible ... the more amiably you greet him the sooner he will go away.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Marcus Aurelius

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm miracles can happen.

Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

Marcus Aurelius

What you can't get out of get into wholeheartedly.

Mignon McLaughlin

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Winston Churchill

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy let us enjoy it.

It is no use to grumble and complain It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice When God sorts out the weather and sends rain-Why rain's my choice.

James Whitcomb Riley

When a dog runs at you whistle for him.

Henry David Thoreau

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

Aesop

The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.

Confucius

He who attempts to resist the wave is swept away but he who bends before it abides.

Bible

Adapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative.

H.G.Wells

One does not have to stand again the gale. One yields and becomes part of the wind.

Emmanuel

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better bend than break.

Scottish Proverb

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.

Lillian Hellman

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Dr. Edward De Bono

Anxiety is that range of distress which attends willing what cannot be willed.

Leslie H. Farber

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand they strain into the future hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Pindar

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose man enjoyment is winning.

No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

Charles Sanders Peirce

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Margaret Mitchell

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

The point... is to dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect to call off the thoughts when turning upon disagreeable objects and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

Winston Churchill

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

Walter Savage Landor

The idea came to me that I was am and will be but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.

Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is a misfortune " but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."

Marcus Aurelius

Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.

Dr. Frank Crane

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

Roger de Rabutin

Better is the enemy of the good.

Voltaire

If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.

Cicero

Genius does what it must talent does what it can.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Results are what you expect consequences are what you get.

Anonymous

To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.

Anonymous

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

Ram Dass

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.

Jean Nicholas Grou

Each of us does in effect strike a series of "deals" or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

William Hazlitt

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction perhaps illusory that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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