Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is to let it rain.
- Topic: Acceptance
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
