Quotes About Acceptance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Make a virtue of necessity.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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