“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”

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

“Getting older… mostly it entails accepting the unacceptable.”

“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.”

“Suppose that there are two sorts of existences, one seen, and the other unseen. …The seen is the changing, and the unseen is the unchanging. …And further, is not one part of us body, and the rest of us soul? …Then the soul is more like to the unseen, and the body to the seen? …the soul is then dragged by the body into the region of the changeable, and wanders and is confused; the world spins round her, and she is like a drunkard when under their influence?”

“With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.”

“If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.”

“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.”

“We had all become used to the totalitarian system and accepted it as an unchangeable fact and thus helped to perpetuate it.”

“A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.”