acceptance

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

Happiness comes from within a man from some curious adjustment to life.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is a misfortune " but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."

If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.

Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.

The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one ... able to adapt himself to any situation.

He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.

Better bend than break.

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand they strain into the future hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Each of us does in effect strike a series of "deals" or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.