~ Acceptance Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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