It
just ain't possible to explain some things.
It's interesting
to wonder on them
and do some speculation, but the main thing
is you have to accept it--take it
for
what it is,
and get on with your growing.
Jim
Dodge
God
asks no person whether he or she will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it.
The
only question is how.
-Henry
Ward Beecher
Life has no
other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to
accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to,
everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or
despise,
serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful,
evil,
can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with
an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for those
who have the vision to recognize it as such.
-Henry Miller
Growth
begins when we start to accept our own weaknesses.
-Jean Vanier
Anything
in life that we don't accept will simply
make trouble for
us until we make peace with it.
-Shakti
Gawain
If
we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the
inevitable; but
we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried
it. I once refused to accept an
inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played
the fool and railed
against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of
insomnia. I brought upon
myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of
self-torture, I had
to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter.
-Dale Carnegie
God does not
make clones. Each person is different, a tribute
to God's creativity. If we are to love our neighbors as
ourselves,
we must accept people as they are and not demand
that they conform to our own image.
-Henry Fehren
There
are people who live lives little different than the beasts,
and I don't mean that badly. I mean that they accept
whatever happens
day to day without struggle or question or regret. To them
things just are, like the earth and sky and seasons.
-Celeste
de Blasis
My
advice to you is not to inquire why or whither,
but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
-Thornton
Wilder
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and
silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
-Helen Keller
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
I accept life
unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition.
Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
-Artur
Rubinstein
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step
to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.
-William James
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.
-Catherine
Marshall
Our
very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they
are,
ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are.
This is
to adopt a realistic humility without which no genuine advance can
even
begin. . . . Provided we strenuously avoid turning these realistic
surveys of the
facts of life into unrealistic alibis for apathy or defeatism, the
can be
the sure foundation upon which increased emotional health
and therefore spiritual progress can be built.
-As
Bill Sees It
Everything
in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.
-Katherine
Mansfield
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 (AIDS patient)
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
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
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
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
Acceptance
is a letting-go process. You let go of your
wishes and demands that life can be different. It's a
conscious choice. -Gary
Emery
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
Acceptance is observation of life and
suspension of judgment about whether what
is happening is good or bad, right or wrong.
-Ron Smotherman
Of course there is no formula for success
except perhaps, an unconditional acceptance
of life and what it brings.
-Artur Rubinstein
To
teach people how to live without certainty and yet without
being paralyzed by hesitation is the lesson of learning
acceptance. -anonymous
Let
us learn to accept ourselves--accept the truth that we are capable
in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare,
that mediocrity is a portion of almost all of us, but that we can
contribute
from the storehouse of our skills to the enrichment of our common
life. -Joshua
Liebman
Some
people confuse acceptance with apathy but there's
all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish
what can and cannot be helped; acceptance makes the distinction.
Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it
by relieving it of impossible burdens.
-Arthur
Gordon
Acceptance
of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not
mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary it
means accepting
it as it comes. . . . To accept is to say yes to life in its
entirety. -Paul
Tournier
Acceptance is the truest
kinship with humanity. -G.K. Chesterton
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