Quotes About Acceptance

When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can.

Since my little daughter is only half Jewish, would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of him.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

The blind man is laughing at the bald head.

Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.

I don't deserve this, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that either.

Expect nothing and life will be velvet.

You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless.

Friendships aren't perfect, and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

No one is happy all his life long.

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 as appropriate for your special endowments.

Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.