Margot Asquith Quotes

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.

A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I've learnt that if you can't get rid of something, you have to find a way to live with it.

Tolerance is something you don't like, but put up with.

If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.

There are only those you can live with, and those you can work to change.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

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

In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that.

We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.

You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

Comfort and growth cannot coexist.

I have differences with every single human being I know, but that difference shouldn’t define our relationship.