acceptance

I have accepted fear as a part of life -specifically the fear of change ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...

The mind which renounces once and forever a futile hope has its compensations in ever-growing calm.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate it oppresses.

We must learn to accept life and to accept ourselves ... with a shrug and a smile ... because it's all we've got.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

If we cannot do what we will we must will what we can.

Ours must be the first age whose great goal on a nonmaterial plane is not fulfillment but adjustment.

He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.

I have learned to live with it all... whatever happens ... all of it.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. There is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.