Acceptance Quotes

“If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.”

“When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.”

“Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.”

“Men shut their doors against a setting sun.”

“This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.”

“All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you.”

“Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.”

“Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?”

“The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.”

“Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love.”

“You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper under, a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely.”

“Don't regret what's happened.If it's in the past, LET IT GO.Don't even remember it!”

“Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.”

“If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.”

“The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?”

“Be crumbled.So wild flowers will come up where you are.You have been stony for too many years.Try something different.Surrender.”

“If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.”

“If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.”

“Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.”

“If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.”

“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”

“Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.”

“The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.”

“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”

“Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.”