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QUOTES ON ACCEPTANCE
"Happiness can exist only in acceptance." (Denis De Rougamont)
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." (Brendan Francis)
"We must accept life for what it actually is -- a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature." (Ida R. Wylie)
"Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth." (Horace)
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are." (Marcus Aurelius)
"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give." (Eleanor Roosevelt)
"Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters." (M. Scott Peck)
"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life." (Henry David Thoreau)
"I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are." (Dr. Paul Tournier)
"O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand." (William Penn)
"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change." (Katherine Mansfield)
"Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it." (Emmet Fox)
"When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all." (Dr. Joyce Brothers)
"Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!" (J.C.F. von Schiller)
"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them." (Juvenal)
"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)
"That which shall be, shall be." (English proverb)
"Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile." (Stephen Covey)
"The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth." (M. Scott Peck)
"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)
"Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension." (Joshua L. Liebman)
"We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns." (Orison S. Marden)
"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." (Epicetus)
"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)
"If you can't fight, and you can't flee, flow." (Robert Eliot)
"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind to be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." (Chuang-tzu)
"Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes." (Agnes Turnbull)
"It's up to us to accept our circumstances, to make the most of our possibilities. Until we face the facts, we won't change them." (Alexandra Stoddard)
"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)
"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them." (Bernard M. Baruch)
"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens." (Epicetus)
"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." (William James)
"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 Connelly)
"Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance." (Unknown)
"What you cannot avoid, welcome." (Chinese Proverb)
"The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher." (Chinese Proverb)
"The sailor doesn't ask for more wind, he learns how to sail." (Gustaf Lindborg)
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind." (Bruce Lee)
"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance." (Nathaniel Branden)
"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." (William James)
"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." (C. G. Jung)
