Quotes About Acceptance

The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough?

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing, did certain persons die before they sing.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once; a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.

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

We must endure what fortune sends.

We must learn from life how to suffer it.

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

Blessed be he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

We have as much time as we need.

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.

Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

When I look in the glass I see that every line in my face means pessimism, but in spite of my face - that is my experience - I remain an optimist.

The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.