Quotes about Acceptance

He is an abscess on the universe who withdraws and separates himself from the reason of our common nature through being displeased with the things that happen; for the same nature that produces these things has produced you, too:

Human lives are brief and trivial. Yesterday a blob of semen; tomorrow embalming fluid, ash. To pass through this brief life as nature demands. To give it up without complaint. Like an olive that ripens and falls. Praising its mother, thanking the tree it grew on.

You've seen that. Now look at this. Don't be disturbed. Uncomplicate yourself. Someone has done wrong … to himself. Something happens to you. Good. It was meant for you by nature, woven into the pattern from the beginning. Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present—thoughtfully, justly. Unrestrained moderation.

Finally, therefore, remember your retreat into this little domain which is yourself, and above all be not disturbed nor on the rack, but be free and look at things as a man, a human being, a citizen, a creature that must die.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change. 43.

But cast away the thirst after books, that thou mayest not die murmuring, but cheerfully, truly, and from thy heart thankful to the gods.

To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.

To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.

To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.

To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.

Consider yourself to be dead, and to have completed your life up to the present time; and now live according to nature the remainder which is allowed you.