"We must accept life for what it actually is -- a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature."

Wylie, Ida R. | Acceptance | 9 bookmarks

"Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment"

Unknown, Source | Acceptance | 12 bookmarks

"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."

Lynes, Russell | Acceptance | 11 bookmarks

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques | Patience | 6 bookmarks

"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."

Rubinstein, Arthur | Love | 50 bookmarks

"Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another."

Ebers, George | Friends and Friendship | 9 bookmarks

"Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard | Ideals and Idealism | 9 bookmarks

"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."

Eliot, T. S. | Age and Aging | 4 bookmarks

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Bradley, Francis H. | Admiration | 7 bookmarks

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle | Habit | 6 bookmarks