Charles M. Schulz Quotes

I accept the cards that were dealt to me.

Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are.

If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

I feel like, as women and men and people on the planet, you just have to do the best with what life gives you.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go doesn't mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle for control.

Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.

Life deals your hand and you play it.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

Worry means tormenting yourself with disturbing thoughts or fretting about things we have zero control over. If you live in the north there is no need to worry about the snow. You will get plenty each year. If you live in California or Texas you needn't worry about rain because we won't receive any.

The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

Like everything in life, I just had to decide what to do with what I was given.

Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.

When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises.

It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.

Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

I'm not aiming for a knockout. I focus on doing my best. If the knockout comes, fine. If not, that's okay.