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Acceptance--A Step Towards
"Just because
it should be
does NOT mean that
it must be."
--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
Quotations: Acceptance
QUOTATIONS VARIOUS SOURCES
"If you want to control others, then control yourself."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"If you want to change others, then change yourself."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"If you want to be happy, then put happiness over being right."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"If you want peace, then put peace over being right."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that is gone."--William Shakespeare
"Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of 'deals,' or compromises, between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations."--Maggie Scarf
"What has always made a hell on earth is that man has tried to make it his heaven."--Friedrich Holderlin
"Happy is the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers."--Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
"For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God."--I Peter 2:20
"When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation--some fact of my life--unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment."--Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, page 449 (The Big Book)
