Acceptance Quotes

“O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.”

“Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.”

“Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.”

“When remedies are past, the griefs are endedBy seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.”

“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.”

“A pal is one that is aware you while you are, understands where you have already been, accepts whatever you are becoming, and continue to, carefully means that you can develop.”

“My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.”

“If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.”

“Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,The seasons' difference, as the icy fangAnd churlish chiding of the winter's wind,Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.”

“To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.”

“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!”

“What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.”

“We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love.”

“No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.”

“Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.”

“I am a willow of the wilderness,Loving the wind that bent me.”

“Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love.”

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

“Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.”

“Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.”

“When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.”

“World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.”

“If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.”

“Things past redress are now with me past care”