By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others‘ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

If you don’t change direction, you end up where you are headed.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

If you can’t change it.. change the way you think about it

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Freedom isn’t the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the inherent limits set in place by nature. By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, you become truly free.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.

Ignore reality, there’s nothing you can do about it.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.