Acceptance Quotes - Page 7

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Carl Jung

We do not write as we want but as we can.

W Somerset Maugham

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard M. Baruch

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

We may fail of our happiness strive we ever so bravely but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.

I One of the signs of maturity is a healthy respect for reality-a respect that manifests itself in the level of one's aspirations and in the accuracy of one's assessment of the difficulties which separate the facts of today from the bright hopes of tomorrow.

Robert H. Davies

Good is not good where better is expected.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept.... My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

There is no quality of human nature so nearly royal as the ability to yield gracefully.

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.

Christopher Fry

Make a virtue of necessity.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow.

Anonymous

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Alexander Hamilton

For so must it be and help me do my part.

Anonymous

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

Eleanor R. Belmont

Man adapts himself to everything to the best and the worst.

José Ortega y Gasset

Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities the strength the wisdom the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen as appropriate for your special endowments.

Charlton Ogburn

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome stubbornness is stupid.

Simone de Beauvoir

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight and with which he did not always willingly cooperate and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

To exist is to adapt and if one could not adapt one died and made room for those who could.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

Johann von Goethe

Real life is to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

Bertrand Russell

People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.

Terence

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.

Friedrich Hölderlin

Ask not that events should happen as you will but let your will be that events should happen as they do and you shall have peace.

Epictetus

The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.

Dave E. Smalley

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.

Aristotle

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

Marcus Aurelius

If you can't fight and you can't flee flow.

Today I know that I cannot control the ocean tides. I can only go with the flow.... When I struggle and try to organize the Atlantic to my specifications I sink. If I flail and thrash and growl and grumble I go under. But if I let go and float I am borne aloft.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

She had believed the land was her enemy and she struggled against it but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the sea. One had to learn to live with it to belong to it to fit into its seasons and its ways.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.

Abraham Lincoln

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

James A. Michener

Don't be sad don't be angry if life deceives you! Submit to your grief your time for joy will come believe me.

Aleksandr Pushkin

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil while fretting and fuming only increase your own torments.

Thomas Jefferson

Whatever is-is best.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

George Bernard Shaw

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth left to itself it sweeps in like the tide.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

Orison Swett Marden

A man must live in the world and make the best of it such as it is.

Michel de Montaigne

There are some people that you cannot change you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

No man can have society upon his own terms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

Charles Dudley Warner

If you bear the cross unwillingly you make it a burden and load yourself more heavily but you must bear it.

Thomas à Kempis

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Bottome

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in which we face them that constitutes our comfort.

Elizabeth T. King

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