Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
~Arthur Gordon
Acceptance says, "True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me."
~Catharine Marshall
It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
~Simone de Beauvoir
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
~Maureen Dowd
"Good enough never is" has become the motto of this company.
~Debbi Fields
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
~Reinhold Niebuhr
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.
~Kathleen Casey Theisen
Self-complacency is fatal to progress.
~Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.
~Old German proverb
Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
~Norman Cousins
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
~Kathleen Norris
The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.
~H. Bertram Lewis
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
~Susan Sontag
Who except the gods can live without any pain?
~Aeschylus
Misfortune comes to all men.
~Chinese proverb
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.
~Clarence Day
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps 'til the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills self.
~W. C. Doane
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
~Joshua L. Liebman
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
~Bible
Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
~Thomas a Kempis
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