Serene Acceptance Quotes

Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of life, conducive to some benefit, casts a grave but tranquil light over the prospect of even a toilsome and troubled life.

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babies; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.

Contentment is the greatest door that one enters to Allah, it is the source of tranquility for the worshiper and paradise on earth. Whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise in the Hereafter.

The maester smiled...Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can....die as I please.

It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.