If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.
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.
True freedom lies in the realization and calm acceptance of the fact that there may very well be no perfect answer.
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.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. ... I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.
To oppose something is to maintain it.
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them.
Things past redress are now with me past care.
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.
No rose without a thorn.
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it's something you allow.
Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.
