Quotes about Acceptance
Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.
- Anonymous
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
- Oscar Wilde
Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
- William James
Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
- William James
Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.
- Etty Hillesum
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.... Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing.
- John Lennon
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
- Marcus Aurelius
The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.
- James Freeman Clarke
True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
- GK Chesterton
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
- Kathleen Norris
Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.
- Anonymous