acceptance

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes by making them the fruit of his character.

Man adapts himself to everything to the best and the worst.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man by necessity uncertain.

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Genius does what it must talent does what it can.

Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.

The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept.... My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.

Often the prudent far from making their destinies succumb to them.