Quotes: Rachel Joyce

"They had offered him comfort and shelter, even when he was afraid of taking them, and in accepting he had learned something new. It was as much a gift to receive as it was to give, requiring as it did both courage and humility."

–– Rachel Joyce (b. 1962), British writer

Source: Rachel Joyce. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Canada: Bond Street Books (Random House Canada), 2012; p. 201.

via: Commonplace Book, 2013-2014, 2014, p. 96. 

Quotes: 14th Dalai Lama

"Acceptance of the unacceptable is where grace is allowed to enter."

–– 14th Dalai Lama (b. 1935), Tibetan Buddhist monk, born Tenzin Gyatso 

Quotes: Old Russian Orthodox monk

"I have finally learned to welcome people as they are." 

–– Old Russian Orthodox monk to younger monk 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook, 2017 b, p. 11.

Quotes: Lee Child

"Zeno of Cittium ... believed in going with the flow. The unquestioned acceptance of destiny. He believed in basking in the sun and eating green figs, instead of spending time and effort trying to change nature with irrigation." 

–– Lee Child, pen name of James Dover Grant (b. 1954), English writer

via: Sketchbook 26, 2015, p. 20.

Quotes: David Allen

"Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind." 

–– David Allen (b. 1945), American management consultant and author 

via: Sketchbook A, 2018, p. 58.