acceptance

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

One does not have to stand again the gale. One yields and becomes part of the wind.

"Okay I have arthritis and this is the way arthritis is." Take pain as it comes and you can better master it.

For this is wisdom: to live to take what fate or the Gods may give.

For so must it be and help me do my part.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield I have learned is to come back again.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

We may fail of our happiness strive we ever so bravely but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.

One cannot get through life without pain. ... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight and with which he did not always willingly cooperate and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

True freedom lies in the realization and calm acceptance of the fact that there may very well be no perfect answer.

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

Ask not that events should happen as you will but let your will be that events should happen as they do and you shall have peace.

Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.