Quotes About Acceptance

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

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

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

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.

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

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

The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

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.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.

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

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

Science says: "We must live," and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable; wisdom says: "We must die," and seeks how to make us die well.

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

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.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them.

Things past redress are now with me past care.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.