Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it. |
But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole. |
California sunlight - sweet Calcutta rain - Honolulu starbright - the song remains the same. |
Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance |
One already wet does not feel the rain. |
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens. |
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. |
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When you are outraged by somebody’s impudence, ask yourself at once, “Can the world exist without impudent people?” It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities. |