Quotes About Acceptance

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog - it keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog mebbe.

Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes, you'll know you're dead.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

I have learned in the great University of Hard Knocks a philosophy that no woman who has had an easy life ever acquires. I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining, Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall, - Some days must be dark and dreary.

But, Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe, and on my jolitee, It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age, alias! that al wole envenyme, Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go, farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon, ther is namoore to telle; The bren, as I best kan, now most I selle.

I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.

Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.

The American's conversation is much like his courtship ... He gives an inkling and watches for a reaction; if the weather looks fair, he inkles a little more. Wishing neither to intrude nor be intruded upon, he advances by stages of acceptance, by levels of agreement, by steps of concurrence.

A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, pass no criticisms.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right.

A good life fears not life, nor death.

He who fears death cannot enjoy life.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; yet nothing troubles me less.

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

Actually, being sixty-five isn't so bad. As a matter of fact I rather like being called a sexagenarian. At this time of life it sounds like flattery.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.