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Acceptance

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Willa Cather

There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

James Russell Lowell

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

William Feather

One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

proverb

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aurelius

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

Bernice Johnson Reagon, quoted in: Home Girls

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

George Bernard Shaw

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief in denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accept criticism and seek counsel of those who will tell you your faults. Mere praise will never bring the improvement you need. He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

Author Unknown

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope. They give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I find my courage wavering I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on.

Helen Hayes

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