Quotes About Acceptance

The measure of a man may be taken very accurately by the extent to which he adapts himself to his environment and makes it his business to accept responsibility for every adversity with which he meets, whether the adversity grows out of a cause within his control or not.

Not all people are so constituted that they wish to know the truth about all matters vitally affecting life. One of the great surprises the author of this course has met with, in connection with his research activities, is that so few people are willing to hear the truth when it shows up their own weaknesses.

Eliminate the fear of old age by reaching a decision to accept it, not as a handicap, but as a great blessing which carries with it wisdom, self-control, and understanding not known to youth.

I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.

A Stoic is a Buddhist with attitude, one who says "f*** you" to fate.

When things go our way we reject the lack of certainty.

You are rich if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

There is a Yiddish saying: "If I am going to be forced to eat pork, it better be of the best kind.

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

We are faulty and there is no need to bother trying to correct our flaws. We are so defective and so mismatched to our environment that we can just work around these flaws. I

Let me warn against misinterpreting the message here. The argument is not against the notion of intervention; in fact I showed above that I am equally worried about underintervention when it is truly necessary. I am just warning against naive intervention and lack of awareness and acceptance of harm done by it.

If you think that you can control your emotions, think that some people also believe that they can control their heartbeat or hair growth.)

There is a Yiddish saying: "If I am going to be forced to eat pork, it better be of the best kind." If I am going to be fooled by randomness, it better be of the beautiful (and harmless) kind.

Mother Nature has given us some defense mechanisms: as in Aesop's fable, one of these is our ability to consider that the grapes we cannot (or did not) reach are sour. But an aggressively stoic prior disdain and rejection of the grapes is even more rewarding. Be aggressive; be the one to resign, if you have the guts.

We need tricks to get us there but before that we need to accept the fact that we are mere animals in need of lower forms of tricks, not lectures.

we are too brainwashed by notions of causality and we think that it is smarter to say because than to accept randomness.

You feel less guilty for not having avoided certain events; you feel less responsible for it. Things appear as if they were bound to happen.

He doesn't usually mind people calling him Fat Tony, but he much prefers to be called just Tony.

I knew I did not belong.

For those readers who wonder about the difference between Buddhism and Stoicism, I have a simple answer. A Stoic is a Buddhist with attitude, one who says "f*** you" to fate.

religion without tolerance

Remember that nobody accepts randomness in his own success, only his failure

It was taken for granted that people learned to be tolerant there;

We respect what has happened, ignoring what could have happened.