“When fortune had deprived him of all hope for the future and driven him to the last extremity, then, while he used every resource which might bring him victory both in his preparations for the battle and on the field itself, he gave equal thought to how in the event of total defeat he could face tha…”— Polyibus, amazon.com
“Everything we could think of to do has been done; the troops are fit; everybody is doing his best. The answer is in the lap of the gods.”— Dwight D. Eisenhower, amazon.com
“For long I’ve watched you trying to fight against it, all for nothing. Shorten sail, change course.”— Aeneas, amazon.com
“We must bear up against them and make the best of mankind as they are, since we cannot make them as we wish.”— George Washington, amarch.lib.niu.edu
“If someone took traffic signals personally we would judge them insane. Yet this is exactly what life is doing to us. It tells us to come to a stop here. Or that this intersection is blocked or that a particular road has been rerouted through an inconvenient detour. We cannot argue or yell this probl…”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.”— Elizabeth Edwards, npr.org
“The world isn’t perfect, and some days it wears you down. You can either accept that, and face it, and be a help to others instead of a hindrance. Or you can decide the rules are too tough and they shouldn’t apply to you, and you can ignore them and make things harder for everybody else. Sometimes l…”— Chloe Neill, amazon.com
“Life gets messy sometimes. You gotta learn you can’t always fix it.”— Alex Vause, fandomisinthedetails.com
“Sometimes people just don't want to play with you, and that's okay.”— Suzanne Warren, rollingstone.com
“Try to look at your experience here as a mandala, Chapman. Work hard to make something as meaningful and beautiful as you can. And when you're done, pack it in and know it was all temporary. You have to remember that. It's all temporary.”— Yoga Jones, youtube.com
“You don’t feel like you’re constantly trying to change him or compromising yourself to stay with him. You don’t view him as a fixer upper or a starter boyfriend. Instead, he is who and what you want and your core values jive.”— Clayton Olson, thoughtcatalog.com
“He doesn't try to change you. He knows you're messier than him, that you always need a pet cat, and can't cook to save your life, and all of that is all right by him.”— Amy Odell, cosmopolitan.com
“Acceptance is when you can look back and say, hey, I may not be okay with the fact that that happened, and I may not ever be, but there are new things in my mind and heart. New things to take my energy and attention. Things that actually deserve it. Things that don’t force me into having to accept a…”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“By constantly thinking down on yourself, you're conditioning yourself to accept lower standards and mediocrity—the exact opposite of what you want to accomplish.”— Randall Degges, lifehacker.com
“What keeps us in bad relationships isn’t that all men are jerks or that relationships are so hard or that we’re unworthy or that all the good guys are taken. What keeps us in bad relationships is low self-esteem. When you don’t value yourself, you will accept and even welcome people who don’t value…”— Sabrina Alexis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.”— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com
“Never be ashamed,’ he said. ‘Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.’ ‘How will I know which is which?’ ‘By the taste. You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad on…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com