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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer.
Sep 10, 2025
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
* We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.
You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience. Mine is rooted in the real lives of real people, and it will bring real results if we have the courage to change.
Pause and remember - Change will happen the moment you have the courage to change.
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.
We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change. Time and again, Americans have seen the need for change, and have taken the initiative to bring that change to life.
There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.
Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy’s wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.” Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.
Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which cannot be changed, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Accept the things I cannot change," I said. "And pray for the courage to change the things I can, as well as the wisdom to know the difference." The thing is... I know this is good advice. It's called the Serenity Prayer, and it really does put things in perspective (it's suppose to be for recovering alcoholics, but it helps recovering freakoutaholics, like me, as well).
Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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.