Quotes About Acceptance

For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.

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

Shut off the past! Let the dead past bury its dead. . . . Shut out the yesterdays which have lighted fools the way to dusty death. . . . The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter. Shut off the future as tightly as the past. . . . The future is today. . . . There is no tomorrow.

There is only one way to happiness," Epictetus taught the Romans, "and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

prayer:   God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means—we have everything to gain!

God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days." Why should you and I?

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

As you and I march across the decades of time, we are going to meet a lot of unpleasant situations that are so. They cannot be otherwise. We have our choice. We can either accept them as inevitable and adjust ourselves to them, or we can ruin our lives with rebellion and maybe end up with a nervous breakdown.

God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can; And the wisdom to know the difference

Don't criticise them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

Remember that unjust criticism is often a disguised compliment. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.

When we stop fighting the inevitable," said Elsie MacCormick in a Reader's Digest article, "we release energy which enables us to create a richer life.

Tanto como anhelamos la aprobación, tememos la condena

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say: "To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day.

criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.

I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

Asking questions not only makes an order more palatable; it often stimulates the creativity of the persons whom you ask. People are more likely to accept an order if they have had a part in the decision that caused the order to be issued.

As much as we seek approval, we dread condemnation

From that day to this, I have made it a rule to throw into the wastebasket all the problems that I can no longer do anything about.

I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

You deserve very little credit for being what you are—and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are. Feel sorry for the poor devils. Pity them. Sympathize with them. Say to yourself: "There, but for the grace of God, go I.

Saberlo todo es perdonarlo todo

Of course, you can't saw sawdust!" Mr Shedd exclaimed. "It's already sawed! And it's the same with the past. When you start worrying about things that are over and done with, you're merely trying to saw sawdust.