acceptance

If you are wise live as you can if you cannot live as you would.

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.

The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

To act with common sense according to the moment is the best wisdom and the best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.

Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.

Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance.

The point... is to dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect to call off the thoughts when turning upon disagreeable objects and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.

What you can't get out of get into wholeheartedly.

No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

Life is not always what one wants it to be but to make the best of it as it is is the only way of being happy.

Real life is to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.