Quotes About Acceptance

The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.

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

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

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

Groan and forget it.

You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it.

This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?

We must somehow get comfortable with the reality of periodic failure. ... Like a trip to the dentist, the thought of occasional reverses may not make us tingle with joyful anticipation, but then again, it's not the end of the world.

Peole do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

The word fate ... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.

Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing.

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.