#acceptance

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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.

Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.

Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been given back. Is your estate taken away? Well, and is not that likewise given back?

And what is your safety? Never to disobey God, never to accuse Him, never to find fault with anything He has given, never unwillingly to do or suffer anything that is necessary.

If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked.

The Master sees things as they are, without trying to control them. She lets them go their own way, and resides at the center of the circle.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

Insecurity is the very condition of life. To resist it is to resist life itself.

Human beings are simply unable to live happily without accepting the fundamental insecurity of existence.

To love someone is to grant them the space to be completely themselves.

There are no mistakes in nature. There are only events.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Do not hold on to someone who is leaving, for you will not meet the one who is arriving.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.

Do not grieve for that which you have not, but rejoice for that which you have.

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails gives him ample opportunity—even under the most difficult circumstances—to add a deeper meaning to his life.

A healthy mind does not demand the absence of trouble, but possesses the humor and resilience to face it.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Give up the futile fight against the inevitable; yield to reality and find your power within it.

He who has learned to accept hardship without bitterness has achieved the summit of psychological freedom.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Few people know how to be old.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

You do not have to be good. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.