Quotes about Acceptance

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.

What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord.

Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.

I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

If they left you, you didn't need them. If they walked away, they weren't part of your DESTINY.

Resign your destiny to higher powers.

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it