Passenger Quotes

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

If you cannot have the thing you want, you want the thing you have.

If you can't be what you want, you learn to be the thing's you're not

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on.

Lower your standards and relax as it is.

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

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

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

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

If you cannot have what you believe in, you must believe in what you have.

Nobody was really happy but everyone could accept.

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

If you find yourself in a position you would rather was not there, you have to make it work.

Adjust my dreams for me.

Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.

Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.

Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.

These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.