Quotes About Acceptance

Make a virtue of necessity.

What cannot be cured must be endured.

To err is human, to purr is feline.

Change is inevitable — except from a vending machine.

Change is inevitable--except from a vending machine.

The cost of automating acceptance tests is so small in comparison to the cost of executing manual test plans that it makes no economic sense to write scripts for humans to execute.

QA and Acceptance Tests If QA has not already begun to write the automated acceptance tests, they should start as soon as the IPM ends. The tests for stories that are scheduled for early completion should be done early. We don't want completed stories waiting for acceptance tests to be written.

One of these days, one of these years, the tree will fall, and when it does, if I am still alive, I will fall with it.

The thoroughly guilty man has an advantage over all of us; he cannot be found more guilty of anything, since he has already found himself guilty of everything. This may sound like an absurdity - causing oneself extreme pain in order not to feel any number of little pains of lesser guilts and shames, but it has its own logic. A man more easily adapts to what he inflicts upon himself; as to his own judgement, he is already committed to it and willing to live with it.

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners, not by spiritual and moral aces

Accept the fact that sometimes coincidences happen. Clouds sometimes look like horses and clocks sometimes stop for no reason. Resist the urge to find meaning and significance everywhere you look.

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

You can't really comprehend events like that, I thought. You can only endure them.

No, not sure. But willing. Willing, finally, to lose what might be lost, willing to embrace what might be gained.

Grant us the courage to accept the bounty You have placed before us this and every other day. Amen.

Understand this: The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.

In dealing with fools you must adopt the following philosophy: they are simply a part of life, like rocks or furniture.

To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path.

Most of us spend our lives avoiding the thought of death. Instead, the inevitability of death should be continually on our minds. Understanding the shortness of life fills us with a sense of purpose and urgency to realize our goals. Training ourselves to confront and accept this reality makes it easier to manage the inevitable setbacks, separations, and crises in life. [...] By becoming deeply aware of our mortality, we intensify our experience of every aspect of life.

Daily Law: Let go of the past and feel yourself carried along by the stream of life and all the power and energy that it will bring us in its wake.

Accept People as Facts

Make understanding people a fun game, the solving of puzzles. It is all part of the human comedy. Yes, people are irrational, but so are you. Make your acceptance of human nature as radical as possible. This will calm you down and help you observe people more dispassionately, understanding them on a deeper level. You will stop projecting your own emotions on to them. All of this will give you more balance and calmness, more mental space for thinking.

Instead, see other people as phenomena, as neutral as comets or plants. They simply exist. They come in all varieties, making life rich and interesting. Work with what they give you, instead of resisting and trying to change them.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity. Not merely to endure that which happens of necessity . . . but to love it. — FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE