Quotes About Acceptance

Resign your destiny to higher powers.

At bottom the whole concern of both morality and religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe. Do we accept it only in part and grudgingly, or heartily and altogether?

There is a finely translated epigram in the greek anthology which admirably expresses this state of mind, this acceptance of loss as unatoned for, even tho the lost element might be one's self: 'A shipwrecked sailor, buried on this coast, bids you set sail. Full many a gallant bark, when we were lost, weathered the gal.

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I, therefore, for one, cannot see my way to accepting the agnostic rules for truth-seeking, or wilfully agree to keep my willing nature out of the game. I cannot do so for this plain reason, that a rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those kinds of truth were really there, would be an irrational rule.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.

Of all that we're asked to give others in this life, the most difficult to offer may be forgiveness.

But the greatest cause of his acceptance of his role in Nazi Germany was, without any doubt at all, that he had a job again and the assurance that he would keep it.

He, who was so monumentally intolerant by his very nature, was strangely tolerant of one human condition—a man's morals.

If you're doing the best you can, that's good enough.

Hooray for differences! Without them, there would be no harmony. In principles, great clarity. In practices, great charity.

The good news of the gospel is that who we are is okay. Our best is good enough. The Savior came for us--just as we are.

Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with the loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say good-bye.

The gods don't owe us anything. That's not why we worship. We worship because they're gods. This is their universe, not ours. What they choose they choose and it's not ours to know why.

I didn't tell the story to ask for help because I knew there was no help.

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Do not anxiously expect what is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked.

A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood.

He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.