Quotes for All
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good. Elizabeth Edwards
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as we think they should; otherwise we get agitated. But we are here to accept the world as it is, even as we work to make it better. Eknath Easwaran
We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented. Ed Harris
Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better. E. W. Howe
My doctor told me I was going to be marginal at this test and he’d given me some hope that maybe I was going to be OK. But when I went in and did it I realized I wasn’t going to be able to pass it so I’ve been working on accepting reality. Doug MacDonald
Find out who you are and do it on purpose. Dolly Parton
Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes … Read more
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. Denis Waitley
When you struggle against this moment, you’re actually struggling against the entire universe. Instead, you can make the decision that today you will not struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. This means that your acceptance of this moment is total and complete. You accept things as they are, not as you … Read more