We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment.
Woman must not accept; she must challenge.
We have fought this fight as long, and as well, as we know how. We have been defeated. There is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.
Better to accept whatever happens.
If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
What cannot be avoided, t'were childish weakness to lament or fear.
I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.
I have learned to live with it all... whatever happens ... all of it.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.
Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblink-ingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.
Man is a pliant animal, a being who gets accustomed to anything.
