Quotes About Acceptance

People are ready to acknowledge some of their faults, but will admit to others only with reluctance.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

I have learned to see that whatever comes about is nothing to me if it lies beyond the sphere of choice.

Remember that in life you ought to behave as at a banquet. Suppose that something is carried round and is opposite to you. Stretch out your hand and take a portion with decency. Suppose that it passes by you. Do not detain it. Suppose that it is not yet come to you. Do not send your desire forward to it, but wait till it is opposite to you.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life. IX

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. Death

Do not wish that all things will go well with you, but that you will go well with all things.

understand that every event is indifferent and nothing to you, of whatever sort it may be; for it will be in your power to make a right use of it, and this no one can hinder.

Is you naturally entitled, then, to a good father? No, only to a father. Is

Whoever chafes at the conditions dealt by fate is unskilled in the art of life; whoever bears with them nobly and makes wise use of the results is a man who deserves to be considered good.

Resistance is vain in any case; it only leads to useless struggle while inviting grief and sorrow.

None of these things are foretold to me; but either to my paltry body, or property, or reputation, or children, or wife. But to me all omens are lucky, if I will. For whichever of these things happens, it is in my control to derive advantage from it.

It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.

It isn't events themselves that disturb people, but only their judgments about them.

End the habit of despising things that are not within your power, and apply your aversion to things that are within your power.

Älä pyri siihen, että kaikki tapahtuisi kuten haluat, vaan halua kaiken tapahtuvan niin kuin se tapahtuu. Silloin elämäsi on tasaista virtaa.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.

Dès qu'une image viendra te troubler l'esprit, pense à te dire : « Tu n'es qu'image, et non la réalité dont tu as l'apparence. » Puis, examine-la et soumets-la à l'épreuve des lois qui règlent ta vie : avant tout, vois si cette réalité dépend de nous ou n'en dépend pas ; et si elle ne dépend pas de nous, sois prêt à dire : « Cela ne me regarde pas. »

Seek at once, therefore, to be able to say to every unpleasing semblance, "You are but a semblance and by no means the real thing." And then examine it by those rules which you have; and first and chiefly by this: whether it concerns the things which are within our own power or those which are not; and if it concerns anything beyond our power, be prepared to say that it is nothing to you.

you're unable to make someone change his views, recognize that he is a child, and clap as he does. Or if you don't care to act in such a way, you have only to keep quiet.

Rahats?z edici bir sorunun sakin bir ÅŸekilde üstesinden gelmek, benim içsel huzurum için ödediÄŸim bedeldir. Kayg? ve endiÅŸeden özgür kalmam için ödediÄŸim ÅŸeydir; iÅŸe yaramaz bir ÅŸey için deÄŸil.

Never say of anything that I've lost it, only that Ive given it back.

The object of your love is mortal; it is not one of your possessions; it has been given to you for the present, not inseparably nor forever." (Epictetus, The Discourses)