acceptance

He who attempts to resist the wave is swept away but he who bends before it abides.

Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in which we face them that constitutes our comfort.

A man must live in the world and make the best of it such as it is.

If you have arthritis calmly say I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

It is no use to grumble and complain It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice When God sorts out the weather and sends rain-Why rain's my choice.

People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

No man can have society upon his own terms.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

Ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm ... to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery.

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.