Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.

Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment

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.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.