Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
If I know my own heart, I do now feel the necessity of resigning myself into the hands of my God, to mould and guide me at His will; tho I dare not say that I am, at present, willing to do it.
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.