acceptance

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?

If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.

Man is a pliant animal a being who gets accustomed to anything.

I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.

What cannot be avoided t'were childish weakness to lament or fear.

Better to accept whatever happens.

What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another not because he does not feel them but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction perhaps illusory that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

The idea came to me that I was am and will be but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Science says: "We must live " and seeks the means of prolonging increasing facilitating and amplifying life of making it tolerable and acceptable wisdom says: "We must die " and seeks how to make us die well.

If you cast away one cross you will certainly find another and perhaps a heavier.