Quotes About Acceptance

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment.

Better to accept whatever happens.

Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

What cannot be avoided, t'were childish weakness to lament or fear.

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

I have learned to live with it all... whatever happens ... all of it.

If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.

Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.

We must learn to accept life and to accept ourselves ... with a shrug and a smile ... because it's all we've got.

Show business is like sex. When it's wonderful, it's wonderful. But when it isn't very good, it's still all right.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest; do not worry.

Somehow, when we no longer feel in control, we become available to deeper aliveness.

It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!), "I trust you; do what you must," life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us.

Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.

Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.

Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

If you can't help it, don't think about it.

What's done can't be undone.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.