Acceptance Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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."

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Better bend than break.

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.

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

Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.

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

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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