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.

For we that live please must please to live.

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.

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

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.

Now is the accepted time.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

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.

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.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

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.

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

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.