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“By nature, we want to be liked. We want to be accepted. But, most of the time, we allow our worth to be decided by the people on the sidelines. By people that see snapshots of our life but have no ...”
“Some people confuse acceptance with apathy but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped acceptance makes that distinction. Apa...”
“Acceptance says "True this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me."”
“The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you settled for.”
“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.”
“We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope.”
“Acceptance is not submission it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.”
“You have to take it as it happens but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.”
“Never deny a diagnosis but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.”
“All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.”
“The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.”
“Life has no smooth road for any of us and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps 'til the legend "over steep ways to the stars " fulfill...”
“Yet man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward.”
“Into each life some rain must fall some days must be dark and dreary.”
“There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.”
“There is no armor against fate death lays his icy hands on kings.”
“There is no easy path leading out of life and few are the easy ones that lie within it.”
“A man shares his days with hunger thirst and cold with the good times and the bad and the first part of being a man is to understand that.”
“It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony like a following breeze at sea is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost our lot is to tack and tune.”
“If you have arthritis calmly say I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road.”
