~ Acceptance Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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