We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
I think the whole mission of being here on Earth is to accept what you have, and my journey was to accept my own life and not pretend anything else. I think that's what we all struggle with.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.
Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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