Acceptance Quotes

Never deny a diagnosis but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.

The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.

Who except the gods can live without any pain?

Misfortune comes to all men.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.

Yet man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward.

Into each life some rain must fall some days must be dark and dreary.

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.

There is no armor against fate death lays his icy hands on kings.

There is no easy path leading out of life and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

A man shares his days with hunger thirst and cold with the good times and the bad and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

One cannot get through life without pain. ... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

If you have arthritis calmly say I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road.

"Okay I have arthritis and this is the way arthritis is." Take pain as it comes and you can better master it.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept his lot calmly even if they roll a few more upon it.

Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man by necessity uncertain.

Against necessity against its strength no one can fight and win.

When necessity speaks it demands.

Whatever is-is best.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.

The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one ... able to adapt himself to any situation.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Genius does what it must talent does what it can.

Results are what you expect consequences are what you get.

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

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.

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