Acceptance Quotes
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
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Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
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No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
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No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too.
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No matter how much you feed a wolf, he will always return to the forest.
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No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything; one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
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Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.
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Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.
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Science says: "We must live," and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable; wisdom says: "We must die," and seeks how to make us die well.
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