Resignation to Circumstances Quotes

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

To take the world as one finds it

There seemed nothing to do but live.

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.

There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

The Work reveals that what you think shouldn't have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking in the world can change it. This doesn't mean that you condone it or approve of it. It just means that you can see things without resistance and without the confusion of your inner struggle. No one wants their children to get sick, no one wants to be in a car accident; but when these things happen, how can it be helpful to mentally argue with them? We know better than to do that, yet we do it, because we don't know how to stop.

This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.