Quotes About Acceptance

To expect an impossibility is madness.

It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

Death and pain are not frightening, it's the fear of pain and death we need to fear. Which is why we praise the poet who wrote, 'Death is not fearful, but dying like a coward is.'

Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.

Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and how nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.

Remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present.

Shall any man hate me? That will be his affair. But I will be mild and benevolent toward every man, and ready to show even him his mistake, not reproachfully, nor yet as making a display of my endurance, but nobly and honestly.

Start praying like this and you'll see. Not "some way to sleep with her" - but a way to stop wanting to. Not "some way to get rid of him" - but a way to stop trying. Not "some way to save my child" - but a way to lose fear. Redirect your prayers like that, and watch what happens.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Love the little trade which you have learned, and be content with it.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man—yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Whatever happens it all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.

Do not remove the kinks from your hair - remove them from your brain.

Some of us seem to accept the fatalist position, the fatalist attitude, that God accorded to us a certain position and condition, and therefore there is no need trying to be otherwise. The moment you accept such an attitude, the moment you accept such an opinion, the moment you harbor such an idea, you hurl an insult at the great God who created you, because you question Him for His love, you question Him for His mercy.

And if the liberal media and political community cannot accept that sometimes the wrong people get killed in war, then I can only suggest they first grow up and then serve a short stint up in the Hindu Kush.

How do you get right with the idea, at the age of thirty-one, that the career you've pursued with every fiber of your being has come suddenly to an end?