Quotes About Acceptance

For your part, do not adopt any air of superiority. Mind your own business, keep busy with the work you are best suited for, and play well the part the Author has given you.

Man, the rational animal, can put up with anything except what seems to him irrational; whatever is rational is tolerable.

When you are alone, you should call this tranquility and freedom and when you are with many you shouldn't call this a crowd, or trouble or uneasiness but festival and company and contentedly accept it.

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.

Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, "I have lost it" and instead say, "It has been returned to where it came from.

These are not the circumstances that I want.' Is it up to you to choose them? You have been given that particular body, these particular parents and brothers, this particular social position and place to live. You come to me hoping that I can somehow change these circumstances for you, not even conscious of the assets that are already yours that make it possible to cope with any situation you face.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

Work, therefore to be able to say to every harsh appearance, "You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be." And then examine it by those rules which you have, and first, and chiefly, by this: whether it concerns the things which are in our own control, or those which are not; and, if it concerns anything not in our control, be prepared to say that it is nothing to you.

Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen that you will have peace.

Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor what they seem to be. They are what they are.

I cannot stay in harmony if I let myself become upset by things beyond my control.

When you desire something outside your sphere of power, you set yourself up for disappointment

Open your eyes: See things for what they really are, thereby sparing yourself the pain of false attachments and avoidable devastation.

Yes, but what good will all this do me when a child of mine dies, or if my brother, or I myself, have to die or be tortured?' [19] Nothing. Because that's not why you came, not why you took your seat in front of me, not the reason you sometimes sacrificed sleep to study by lamplight.

The divine order does not design people or circumstance according to our tastes

If it pleases the gods, so be it.

No, I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it – or do I have to die moaning and groaning too?

No exijas que los acontecimientos sucedan como deseas. Acéptalos tal como son realmente. Así te será posible ser feliz.

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but instead, "I have given it back.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived – and dying I will tend to later.

there is but one way to freedom - to despise what is not in our power.

Some things are up to us and some are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions – in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices. . .

Before I became old I tried to live well; now that I am old, I shall try to die well; but dying well means dying gladly.

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.