"Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment"

Unknown, Source | Acceptance | 12 bookmarks

"Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

Miller, Henry | Acceptance | 15 bookmarks

"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."

Moustakas, Clark | Acceptance | 16 bookmarks

"For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him."

Orwell, George | Acceptance | 2 bookmarks

"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."

Bacon, Francis | Adaptability | 7 bookmarks

"Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be."

Proverb, German | Adaptability | 9 bookmarks

"If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile."

Proverb, Indian | Adaptability | 4 bookmarks

"Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others."

Unknown, Source | Advantage | 4 bookmarks

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

Hoffer, Eric | Affectation | 6 bookmarks

"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?"

Brice, Fanny | Affectation | 8 bookmarks