Ann Beattie Quotes

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

Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.

God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

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

Make peace with what is.

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

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.

I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

As life has a way of unfolding as it is meant to, I have learned to trust life.

I don't mind what happens.

Everything always passes, and everything is already okay. Stay in the place where you can see that, and nothing will resist you.

Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through.

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.

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?

Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.

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

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.