Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
- Topic: Acceptance, Fate, Love
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The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.
› Marcus Aurelius
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
› Marcus Aurelius
To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
› Sting
God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
› Reinhold Niebuhr
Now is the accepted time.
› 1 Corinthians 6:2
We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
› Mark Twain
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.
› Martin Luther King Jr.
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.
› Jonathan Swift
For we that live please must please to live.
› Samuel Johnson
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
› Sophocles
Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.
› Marcus Aurelius
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.
› Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
› Martin Luther King Jr.
They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.
› George Orwell
Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.
› Leo Tolstoy
Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.
› Rumi
It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
› Marcus Aurelius
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
› George Sand
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
› Kahlil Gibran
