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Acceptance
QUOTATIONS VARIOUS SOURCES
"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)
"Easy Does It."--AA
"Take Life One Day at a Time."--AA
"Let Go and Let God."--AA
"Live and Let Live."--AA
"Turn it over."--AA
"Just for today."--AA
"Live life on life's terms."--AA
"I cannot afford resentments."--AA
"Detach with love."--Al-Anon
"I didn't cause it. I can't change it. I can't control it."--Al-Anon
"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace."--Buddha
"God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me."--Anonymous
"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing."--Chuang-Tzu
"Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?"--Matthew 6:25
"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."--Matthew 6:34
"And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on."--Luke 12:22
"You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."--Eleanor Roosevelt
"I've developed a new philosophy--I only dread one day at a time."--Charlie Brown, comic strip character
"Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be."--Alfred Lord Tennyson
"All healing is first a healing of the heart."--Carl Townsend
"Never say of anything that I have lost it, only say that I have given it back."--Epictetus
"The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery."--Albert Ellis, Rational-Emotive Therapy with Alcoholics and Substance Abusers, page 71
"You never truly need what you want. That is the main and thoroughgoing key to serenity."--Albert Ellis, Buddhism and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
"Needing leads to bleeding--to almost all inevitable suffering."--Albert Ellis, Buddhism and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
"By your own soul, learn to live. If some men thwart you, take no heed. If some men hate you, have no care. Sing your song. Dream your dream. Hope your hope and pray your prayer."--Pakenham Beatty
QUOTATIONS FROM KEVIN
"Correct it or accept it."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Whatever I do not accept rules me."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Problem-solving requires that you first accept the problem."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Acceptance is not condoning but acknowledging."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Coping is complete acceptance."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"You can't begin until you begin to accept."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Just because it should be does not mean that it must be."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"When the rain falls it cannot be put back into the clouds."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
Maturity with Quotations
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA): The 12 Traditions of
Addictions: 7 Pillars of Recovery
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