~ Acceptance Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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