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🤲 Acceptance
“If you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid”
Accepting appearing foolish as the price of genuine improvement.
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
— Epictetus
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”
“It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
“Life is made up of marble and mud.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.”
— Menander
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.”
— Lao Tzu
“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.”
— Zhuangzi
“Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have lived it; I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.”
— Thomas Merton
“In this world nothing lasts forever; the blossoms scatter, the moon wanes.”
— Murasaki Shikibu
