Acceptance Quotes
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There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
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There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
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Things past redress are now with me past care.
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Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
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To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is; and despise affectation.
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To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.
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To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
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To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
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Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.
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Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
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We do not write as we want, but as we can.
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