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“What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.”
“If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.”
“Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.”
“The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do it's something you allow.”
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate it oppresses.”
“When you make your peace with authority you become authority.”
“Ours must be the first age whose great goal on a nonmaterial plane is not fulfillment but adjustment.”
“Woman must not accept she must challenge.”
“We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. There is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.”
“Competition is about passion for perfection and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.”
“If we cannot do what we will we must will what we can.”
“What cannot be avoided t'were childish weakness to lament or fear.”
“There is no such thing as pure pleasure some anxiety always goes with it.”
“If a ship has been sunk I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides if I ...”
“Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.”
“Acceptance says True this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblink-ingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.”
“Man is a pliant animal a being who gets accustomed to anything.”
“What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.”
“There is no sense in the struggle but there is no choice but to struggle.”
“Boys this is only a game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand good or bad and don't whine and complain but play it out. If you're men enough to do that God w...”
