Gloria Naylor Quotes

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

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Whatever happens, happens. Accept things and move on.

I try to just live my life and do my work, and the rest will just fall into place, as it may. As it will.

Accept what you cannot control.

I just try to do what I can, control what I can, and let the rest handle itself.

Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

And let its meaning permeate each day. Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.

Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don't want to hear that. I can absolutely trust that in the next year my life is going to be changed, different, yet always just the way it is.

Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.

You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.

Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.

Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.