Accepting Things Quotes

Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.

Well I can tell you that for me generally speaking that I think things that I deal with are all to do with not accepting things, not excepting life on life's terms. My life becomes a lot easier when I'm willing to just accept. I don't have to like circumstances as they are, but I have to accept them and that's where I always seem to get thrown, when I try to will my way instead of accept things the way they are.

It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: "Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think," and the like.

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

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.