acceptance

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy let us enjoy it.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept his lot calmly even if they roll a few more upon it.

When a dog runs at you whistle for him.

Better is the enemy of the good.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

Adapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative.

To exist is to adapt and if one could not adapt one died and made room for those who could.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome stubbornness is stupid.

Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.