acceptance

There is no quality of human nature so nearly royal as the ability to yield gracefully.

Contentment and indeed usefulness comes as the infallible result of great acceptances great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose man enjoyment is winning.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything one's last is to come to terms with everything.

I accept life unconditionally. ... Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

We do not write as we want but as we can.

Today I know that I cannot control the ocean tides. I can only go with the flow.... When I struggle and try to organize the Atlantic to my specifications I sink. If I flail and thrash and growl and grumble I go under. But if I let go and float I am borne aloft.

Anxiety is that range of distress which attends willing what cannot be willed.

I One of the signs of maturity is a healthy respect for reality-a respect that manifests itself in the level of one's aspirations and in the accuracy of one's assessment of the difficulties which separate the facts of today from the bright hopes of tomorrow.

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow.

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.

Make a virtue of necessity.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth left to itself it sweeps in like the tide.

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.