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Acceptance QuotesFamous Acceptance quotes by popular authors such as Louis L'Amour, Marcus Aurelius, Thomas a Kempis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung and others.
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[highlight-text]I is who I is.
Tom Peterson
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[highlight-text]Whatever is-is best.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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[highlight-text]Groan and forget it.
Jessamyn West
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[highlight-text]Better bend than break.
Scottish Proverb
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[highlight-text]No rose without a thorn.
French Proverb
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[highlight-text]Make a virtue of necessity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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[highlight-text]Misfortune comes to all men.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]Few love what they may have.
Ovid
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[highlight-text]Misfortunes come to all men.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]Bloom where you are planted.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Don't fight forces; use them.
Buckminster Fuller
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[highlight-text]There is time for everything.
Thomas Edison
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[highlight-text]Here I am where I ought to be.
Louise Erdrich
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[highlight-text]Better is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
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[highlight-text]You cannot clear fog with a fan.
French Proverb
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[highlight-text]When necessity speaks it demands.
Russian Proverb
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[highlight-text]Better to accept whatever happens.
Horace
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[highlight-text]A hero is a man who does what he can.
Romain Rolland
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[highlight-text]Self-complacency is fatal to progress.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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[highlight-text]Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
Virginia Woolf
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[highlight-text]To oppose something is to maintain it.
Ursula K. LeGuin
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[highlight-text]Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]When a dog runs at you whistle for him.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]For so must it be and help me do my part.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]We do not write as we want but as we can.
W. Somerset Maugham
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[highlight-text]The great soul surrenders itself to fate.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Woman must not accept; she must challenge.
Margaret Sanger
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[highlight-text]No man can have society upon his own terms.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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[highlight-text]If you can't fight and you can't flee flow.
Robert Eliot
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[highlight-text]Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
Agnes Turnbull
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[highlight-text]Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.
Denis De Rougemont
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[highlight-text]Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
Werner Erhard
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[highlight-text]Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.
Henry S. Haskins
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[highlight-text]Who except the gods can live without any pain?
Aeschylus
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[highlight-text]We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Carl Jung
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[highlight-text]Things past redress are now with me past care.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
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[highlight-text]There are things I can't force. I must adjust.
CM. Ward
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[highlight-text]A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]Ride the horse in the direction that it's going.
Werner Erhard
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[highlight-text]Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Eric Hoffer
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[highlight-text]I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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[highlight-text]What you can't get out of get into wholeheartedly.
Mignon McLaughlin
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[highlight-text]The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.
Confucius
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[highlight-text]One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.
Louis L'Amour
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[highlight-text]One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
Andre Gide
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[highlight-text]Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius
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[highlight-text]All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.
James A. Michener
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[highlight-text]Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
Margaret Mitchell
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[highlight-text]Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!
J. C. F. von Schiller
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[highlight-text]Yet man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward.
Bible
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[highlight-text]I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
Thornton Wilder
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[highlight-text]Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch
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[highlight-text]If we cannot do what we will we must will what we can.
Yiddish Proverb
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[highlight-text]You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.
Louis L'Amour
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[highlight-text]Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]When we have not what we love we must love what we have.
Roger de Rabutin
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[highlight-text]It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
Simone de Beauvoir
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[highlight-text]Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
Olive Schreiner
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[highlight-text]Good enough never is has become the motto of this company.
Debbi Fields
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[highlight-text]We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.
Roger de Rabutin
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[highlight-text]Man adapts himself to everything to the best and the worst.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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[highlight-text]Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?
Bible
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[highlight-text]We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Alexander Hamilton
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[highlight-text]Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
Charles Baudelaire
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[highlight-text]Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.
Terence
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[highlight-text]When you make your peace with authority you become authority.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]Adapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells
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[highlight-text]There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Man is a pliant animal a being who gets accustomed to anything.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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[highlight-text]Against necessity against its strength no one can fight and win.
Aeschylus
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[highlight-text]There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.
Leo Tolstoy
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[highlight-text]I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
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[highlight-text]A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.
Louis L'Amour
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[highlight-text]I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale
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[highlight-text]Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy let us enjoy it.
Pope Leo X
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[highlight-text]If you are wise live as you can; if you cannot live as you would.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]There is no armor against fate; death lays his icy hands on kings.
James Shirley
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[highlight-text]Often the prudent far from making their destinies succumb to them.
Voltaire
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[highlight-text]What cannot be avoided t'were childish weakness to lament or fear.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
Joshua L. Liebman
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[highlight-text]A man must live in the world and make the best of it such as it is.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin
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[highlight-text]For this is wisdom: to live to take what fate or the Gods may give.
Laurence Hope
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[highlight-text]What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
Horace
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[highlight-text]The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Okakura Kakuzo
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[highlight-text]A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.
Louis L'Amour
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[highlight-text]The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
Ram Dass
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[highlight-text]Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
Boethius
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[highlight-text]Into each life some rain must fall some days must be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[highlight-text]I have learned to live with it all... whatever happens ... all of it.
Edelgard
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[highlight-text]It is not enough to know how to ride, you must also know how to fall.
Mexican Proverb
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[highlight-text]Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man by necessity uncertain.
Erich Fromm
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[highlight-text]Happiness comes from within a man from some curious adjustment to life.
Hugh Walpole
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[highlight-text]No matter how much you feed a wolf he will always return to the forest.
Russian Proverb
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[highlight-text]If you are going to live by the river, make friends with the crocodile.
Indian Proverb
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[highlight-text]It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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[highlight-text]If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van Buren
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[highlight-text]Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
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[highlight-text]Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]There is no sense in the struggle but there is no choice but to struggle.
Ernie Pyle
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[highlight-text]We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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[highlight-text]There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid
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[highlight-text]Never deny a diagnosis but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
Norman Cousins
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[highlight-text]Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
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[highlight-text]Wood may remain ten years in the water but it will never become a crocodile.
Congolese Proverb
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[highlight-text]A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
Eleanor R. Belmont
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[highlight-text]To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.
Flannery O'Connor
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[highlight-text]Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Anxiety is that range of distress which attends willing what cannot be willed.
Leslie H. Farber
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[highlight-text]If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance.
Henry S. Haskins
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[highlight-text]He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.
Boethius
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[highlight-text]Acceptance and Work If you have a job without aggravations you don't have a job.
Malcolm Forbes
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[highlight-text]Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow
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[highlight-text]A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose man enjoyment is winning.
Chuck Noll
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[highlight-text]If you cast away one cross you will certainly find another and perhaps a heavier.
Thomas a Kempis
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[highlight-text]A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.
Dogen
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[highlight-text]Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
Ken Keyes
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[highlight-text]In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de Beauvoir
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[highlight-text]The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch
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[highlight-text]Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
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[highlight-text]He who attempts to resist the wave is swept away but he who bends before it abides.
Bible
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[highlight-text]One does not have to stand again the gale. One yields and becomes part of the wind.
Emmanuel
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[highlight-text]No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
William Cowper
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[highlight-text]The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you settled for.
Maureen Dowd
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[highlight-text]There is no easy path leading out of life and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
Walter Savage Landor
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[highlight-text]There is no quality of human nature so nearly royal as the ability to yield gracefully.
Charles Conrad
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[highlight-text]What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.
Friedrich Holderlin
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[highlight-text]Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward de Bono
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[highlight-text]Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
Charles Dudley Warner
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[highlight-text]I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken as well as those outside.
C. F. Ramuz
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[highlight-text]The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.
Christopher Fry
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[highlight-text]Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself it sweeps in like the tide.
Fay Weldon
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[highlight-text]Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.
Henry Ward Beecher
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[highlight-text]To exist is to adapt and if one could not adapt one died and made room for those who could.
Louis L'Amour
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[highlight-text]What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
Louise Nevelson
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[highlight-text]We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate it oppresses.
Carl Jung
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[highlight-text]When one's expectations are reduced to zero one really appreciates everything one does have.
Stephen Hawking
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[highlight-text]I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather
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[highlight-text]Jesus please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.
Susan L. Lenzkes
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[highlight-text]Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.
Shakti Gawain
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[highlight-text]The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]You have to take it as it happens but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.
Old German Proverb
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[highlight-text]If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]The mind which renounces once and forever a futile hope has its compensations in ever-growing calm.
George R. Gissing
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[highlight-text]The mind which renounces once and forever a futile hope has its compensations in ever-growing calm.
George R. Gissing
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[highlight-text]Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
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[highlight-text]The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen
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[highlight-text]There are some people that you cannot change you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.
Margot Asquith
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[highlight-text]One's first step in wisdom is to question everything; one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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[highlight-text]Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Ours must be the first age whose great goal on a nonmaterial plane is not fulfillment but adjustment.
Louis Kronenberger
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[highlight-text]When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.
Thomas a Kempis
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[highlight-text]We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
Orison Swett Marden
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[highlight-text]Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.
M. C. Mcintosh
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[highlight-text]Real life is to most men a long second best a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris
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[highlight-text]There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome
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[highlight-text]Okay I have arthritis and this is the way arthritis is. Take pain as it comes and you can better master it.
Charles Clifford Peale
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[highlight-text]The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.
Vauvenargues
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[highlight-text]Competition is about passion for perfection and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.
Mariah Burton Nelson
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[highlight-text]If you bear the cross unwillingly you make it a burden and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.
Thomas a Kempis
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[highlight-text]My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder
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[highlight-text]One cannot get through life without pain... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.
Bernie S. Siegel
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[highlight-text]The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one ... able to adapt himself to any situation.
Mortimer Smith
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[highlight-text]I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.
Polly Adler
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[highlight-text]Life is not always what one wants it to be but to make the best of it as it is is the only way of being happy.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
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[highlight-text]The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
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[highlight-text]Don't be sad don't be angry if life deceives you! Submit to your grief; your time for joy will come believe me.
Alexander Pushkin
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[highlight-text]The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
Jean Nicholas Grou
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[highlight-text]God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
Henry Ward Beecher
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[highlight-text]Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.
Katherine Mansfield
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[highlight-text]The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
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[highlight-text]We cannot conquer fate and necessity yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
Walter Savage Landor
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[highlight-text]One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]We must learn to accept life and to accept ourselves ... with a shrug and a smile ... because it's all we've got.
Harvey Mindess
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[highlight-text]Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.
Helen Keller
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[highlight-text]True freedom lies in the realization and calm acceptance of the fact that there may very well be no perfect answer.
Allen Reid McGinnis
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[highlight-text]People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
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[highlight-text]The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]It is right it should be so Man was made for joy and woe; And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.
William Blake
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[highlight-text]He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
David Hume
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[highlight-text]The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
Henry Miller
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[highlight-text]There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
James Russell Lowell
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[highlight-text]Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
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[highlight-text]Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.
Kathleen Casey Theisen
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[highlight-text]If you have arthritis calmly say I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in which we face them that constitutes our comfort.
Elizabeth T. King
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[highlight-text]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.
Epictetus
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[highlight-text]Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Chuang-tzu
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[highlight-text]The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
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[highlight-text]Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
Dag Hammarskjold
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[highlight-text]The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.
Clarence Day
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[highlight-text]I accept life unconditionally. ... Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Arthur Rubinstein
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[highlight-text]A man shares his days with hunger thirst and cold with the good times and the bad and the first part of being a man is to understand that.
Louis L'Amour
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[highlight-text]Always fall in with what you're asked to accept.... My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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[highlight-text]Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not 'This is a misfortune ' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm ... to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Cyril Connolly
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[highlight-text]As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield I have learned is to come back again.
Lao-Tzu
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[highlight-text]It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain-Why rain's my choice.
James Whitcomb Riley
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[highlight-text]The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent van Gogh
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[highlight-text]I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Erica Jong
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[highlight-text]Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept his lot calmly even if they roll a few more upon it.
Albert Schweitzer
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[highlight-text]Trouble will come soon enough and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible ... the more amiably you greet him the sooner he will go away.
Artemus Ward
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[highlight-text]Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. There is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
Robert E. Lee
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[highlight-text]Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.
H. Bertram Lewis
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[highlight-text]It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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[highlight-text]There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand they strain into the future hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
Pindar
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[highlight-text]The idea came to me that I was am and will be but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.
Nina Berberova
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[highlight-text]Contentment and indeed usefulness comes as the infallible result of great acceptances great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.
David Grayson
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[highlight-text]It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
Herbert Hoover
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[highlight-text]The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do it's something you allow.
Will Garcia
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[highlight-text]The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another not because he does not feel them but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Acceptance says 'True this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.'
Catharine Marshall
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[highlight-text]The point... is to dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect to call off the thoughts when turning upon disagreeable objects and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.
Abraham Tucker
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[highlight-text]Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.
Smiley Blanton
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[highlight-text]And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. ... I can find no serenity until I accept that person place thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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[highlight-text]It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony like a following breeze at sea is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost our lot is to tack and tune.
Harvey Oxenhorn
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[highlight-text]If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.
Hazel Henderson
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[highlight-text]Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.
Alan Watts
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[highlight-text]Each of us does in effect strike a series of 'deals' or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.
Maggie Scarf
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[highlight-text]Science says: 'We must live ' and seeks the means of prolonging increasing facilitating and amplifying life of making it tolerable and acceptable; wisdom says: 'We must die ' and seeks how to make us die well.
Miguel de Unamuno
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[highlight-text]An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.
Aesop
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[highlight-text]The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing.
John Lennon
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[highlight-text]Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.
Dr. Frank Crane
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[highlight-text]For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural death is the obscene mystery the ultimate affront the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Susan Sontag
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[highlight-text]Boys this is only a game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand good or bad and don't whine and complain but play it out. If you're men enough to do that God will help you and you will come out well.
Ida Eisenhower
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[highlight-text]She had believed the land was her enemy and she struggled against it but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the sea. One had to learn to live with it to belong to it to fit into its seasons and its ways.
Louis L'Amour
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[highlight-text]Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction perhaps illusory that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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[highlight-text]It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
T. S. Eliot
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[highlight-text]If a ship has been sunk I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides if I let those things get me I wouldn't last long.
Admiral Ernest J. King
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[highlight-text]When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil while fretting and fuming only increase your own torments.
Thomas Jefferson
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[highlight-text]I One of the signs of maturity is a healthy respect for reality-a respect that manifests itself in the level of one's aspirations and in the accuracy of one's assessment of the difficulties which separate the facts of today from the bright hopes of tomorrow.
Robert H. Davies
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[highlight-text]To act with common sense according to the moment is the best wisdom; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.
Horace Walpole
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[highlight-text]Today I know that I cannot control the ocean tides. I can only go with the flow.... When I struggle and try to organize the Atlantic to my specifications I sink. If I flail and thrash and growl and grumble I go under. But if I let go and float I am borne aloft.
Marie Stilkind
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[highlight-text]Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.
Dave E. Smalley
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[highlight-text]Some people confuse acceptance with apathy but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
Arthur Gordon