Jim Dine Quotes

You've just got to take things the way they are and accept them and strive.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.

You can't. You just have to.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

All of us suffer difficulties in our lives. And if you say to yourself 'find a way,' you'll make it through.

I don't worry about the things I can't change.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

The person who lets them get you down, any kind of problem, is the person that fades out. So you've got to be strong enough; you don't like it, but you've got to be strong enough to accept what's going on and that you're going to fight it or whatever it takes to overcome this matter. That's the way I feel.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things.

Sometimes you have to look at a start and say, 'Nothing is wrong.' Even when you get lit up, you still have to say 'Nothing is wrong.'

For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.

You have to take all the ups and downs that come your way like a pinch of salt. Just leave everything behind. Forgive and forget.

Sometimes, life is unfair, and you have to suck it up and move on and not use it as an excuse.

You just have to get on with life, there's no alternative. You could curl up in a ball on your bed, but that's not going to achieve anything.

Things in life just happen and then you make the best of the situation and you keep moving.

Things happen in life and you can’t control them. It sucks and you have to move on.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.