Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

We have to accept the world as it is, not as we'd have it to be.

We know the ideal isn't where the action is.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

I must play the instrument I've got.

We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem - it's reality.

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.

I've been through a lot of struggles.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

And that’s the way it is

We must do as we may when we may not do as we would.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.