Best life & accepting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.”

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.”

Ifs Life Joy Prayer Accepting Praying

Author:Evagrius Ponticus

“Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.”

Way Life Fall Given My Own Accepting Acceptance Achievement Aim Aim Of Life

Author:Robert Frost

“An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.”

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Author:Derek R. Audette

“It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.”

Ifs Life Humans May Helping Life Is Space Accepting Our Lives Events Return Dust Human Life Overwhelming End Times Spend Time Unfathomable

Author:Alain de Botton

“I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.”

Thinking Life Should Said Jobs Accepting

Author:Benjamin Alire Saenz

“The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.”

“I accept that life is uncertain--that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the mystery of not knowing what will come next. And then, miracle of miracles, out there in the deep and uncertain water, I come into a peaceful knowing--a faithful wisdom that surpasses control and certainty.”

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Author:Elizabeth Lesser

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

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Book:Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants

Source: Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants

“There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To live life with dignity, to celebrate and accept responsibility for your presence in the world is all that can be asked of anyone.”

World Life Two Running Responsibility Accepting Dignity Train Celebrate Live Life Your Presence

Author:August Wilson

“life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.”

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Book:Measure of My Days

Source: Measure of My Days

“My life is a life of accepting what the universe has offered me... I don't fight the universe.”

Life Life Is Fighting Universe Accepting

Author:Ziggy Marley

“Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming - perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.”

“Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier (like it does when getting fit). When you excel at it, you will find your ability to get what you want thrilling.”

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Author:Ray Dalio

“Sometimes we forge our own principles and sometimes we accept others' principles, or holistic packages of principles, such as religion and legal systems. While it isn't necessarily a bad thing to use others' principles - it's difficult to come up with your own, and often much wisdom has gone into those already created - adopting pre-packaged principles without much thought exposes you to the risk of inconsistency with your true values.”

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Author:Ray Dalio

“Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.”

Life Individual Accepting Demand Deception Contemplating Deceiving

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“Certainly I accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and a lot of it you take the good with the bad, dealing with different adversities in life, you just try to do the best you can do.”

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Author:Tom Brady

“Life makes no sense if you have to tolerate endless lies. I will never accept this system, which is built on lies, i will not stop my fight against this junta.”

Ifs Life Lying Fighting Accepting Built Endless Tolerate

Author:Alexei Navalny

“Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.”

Life Accepting Fire Fashion Appearance Triumph Rely Pale Pedants

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“American business men must learn human nature to the point of accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right. . . . To get fast action somebody must stir millions to genuine anger over conditions which are adversely affecting their lives.”

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Author:Walter B. Pitkin

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