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

For we that live please must please to live.

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.

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.

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

Now is the accepted time.

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.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

There is no education like adversity.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.