For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.
Acceptance and Work If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.
When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
The great soul surrenders itself to fate.
The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its compensations in ever-growing calm.
I not only bow to the inevitable, I am fortified by it.
I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside.
The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events, and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability.
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.
Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance.
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
