Quotes About Acceptance

If you wish to have peace and contentment, release your attachment to all things outside your control. This is the path of freedom and happiness.

I, personally, was never kept from something I wanted, nor had forced upon me something I was opposed to. How did I manage it? I submitted my will to God. He wants me to be sick – well, then, so do I. He wants me to choose something. Then I choose it. He wants me to desire something, I desire it. He wants me to get something, I want the same; or he doesn't want me to get it, and I concur.

Be confident in everything outside the will, and cautious in everything under the will's control.

Make the best use of what is in our power, and treat the rest in accordance with its nature. And what is its nature? However God decides.

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off – see, it doesn't bite.

fear comes from what you expect, but grief from that which is present.

For of the things which are within the power of the will, as being good and present, you have a proper and regulated desire: but of the things which are not in the power of the will you do not desire any one, and so you do not allow any place to that which is irrational, and impatient, and above measure hasty.

Don't seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.

Begin therefore with little things. A little oil is spilled, a little wine is stolen: say, "This is the price of tranquility; this is the price of not being upset.

What did I lack then, anyway?

This is God's signal to you: if you want, you are free; if you want, you will blame no one, you will accuse no one - if you want, everything will happen according to plan, yours as well as God's.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Make the best use of what's in your power and take the rest as it happens (Epictetus)

19] 'My brother shouldn't have treated me in this way.' Indeed he shouldn't, but it's for him to see to that. For my part, however he treats me, I should conduct myself towards him as I ought. For that is my business, and the rest is not my concern. In this no one can hinder me, while everything else is subject to hindrance.

But it is within your power to avoid disappointment, by directing your desires to things that are rightfully yours to obtain and control.

Jeff: At least I admit that I don't know. I know that things are fucked up, beyond belief, and I have nothing original to say about it...

Molto più importante di quello che sappiamo o non sappiamo è quello che non vogliamo sapere.

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats — we know it not.

A great relationship was when someone accepted your past, supported your present, and encouraged your future.

He was old enough to know you can't make people love you. But I suppose when you're wounded, logic ain't logical.

When a man really loves a woman, her secrets don't matter. He knows she's a liar and lives with it. His choice. In his silence he was the protector of her secrets. He maintained her lie out of loyalty, did that to prove his love. Loved her. Pi Suleman

I let my towel drop to the carpet. Nakedness stared at nakedness, and nakedness smiled.

That is awareness; that is honesty; but you do not need to put yourself in the docket and indict yourself.

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.