Quotes About Acceptance

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.

Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.

We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

Friendship admits of differences of character, as love does that of sex.

Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little; we are all so constituted by nature that no one can possibly entirely approve of us.

Love your friend with his fault.

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen.

How, then, find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

A bull does not enjoy fame in two herds.

Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in.

"You are accepted!" ... accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now, perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything, perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything, do not perform anything, do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.

Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

Custom reconciles us to everything.