Quotes About Acceptance

Epictetus is not superior to Socrates; but if he is not inferior, this is enough for me; for I shall never be a Milo, and yet I do not neglect my body; nor shall I be a Croesus, and yet I do not neglect my property; nor, in a word, do we neglect looking after anything because we despair of reaching the highest degree.

Así como el Sol no espera que las oraciones y conjuros se levanten, sino que resplandece y es bien recibido por todos: así que tú tampoco esperes aplaudir y gritar y alabar para cumplir con tu deber; no, haz el bien por tu propia voluntad, y serás amado como el Sol.

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

So in the field of assent you cannot be hindered or obstructed. 'Evidently.

Lead me, Fate, wherever you will, and I will cheerfully follow. For, even if I kick and wail, all the same I must follow. —Cleanthes

Every day you should put the ideas in action that protect against attachment to externals such as individual people, places or institutions – even your own body.

Whoever yields to fate becomes wise, by learning the laws of heaven. —Euripides

I must be exiled; but is there anything to keep me from going with a smile, calm and self-composed?

When we are guests at a dinner party, we content ourselves with the food on offer; if anyone were to tell the host to put out fish or cake, he would seem rude. In real life, however, we ask the gods for what they do not give, and this though they have provided us with plenty.

Make the best use of what is in our power, and treat the rest in accordance with its nature.

Este es el origen del sufrimiento, querer algo y que no suceda

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

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would want them too. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible

True instruction is this:--to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole.

So why take on the burden of matters which you cannot answer for? You are only making unnecessary problems for yourself.

Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.

It is for you to arrange your priorities; but whatever you decide to do, don't do it resentfully, as if you were being imposed on.

You must realize that death and illness are bound to overtake us whatever it is we're doing. They overtake the farmer at the plough, the sailor at the helm; [6] what do you want to be doing when they come upon you? Because you have to be doing something when you go; and if you can find anything better than this to be doing, then do it by all means.

Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.

Geef me de moed om alles te accepteren wat niet in mijn vermogen ligt, de kracht om alles te veranderen wat wel in mijn vermogen ligt, en de wijsheid om tussen die twee te onderscheiden.

Show me someone untroubled with disturbing thoughts about illness, danger, death, exile or loss of reputation. By all the gods, I want to see a Stoic!

So-and-so's son died.' ('The question'). Answer: 'Since it's nothing he can control, it isn't bad.

But it's not right of Zeus to do this.' Why? Because he made you tough and proud, removed the stigma of evil from these circumstances and made it possible for you to be happy despite them? Or because he left the door open when things finally don't agree with you? Friend, take advantage of it, and stop blaming God.

If you wish to have peace and contentment, release your attachment to all things outside your control.