You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

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

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

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

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.

For we that live please must please to live.

Now is the accepted time.

No garden is without its weeds.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.