Sarah Dessen Quotes

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.

I have learned to take things as they come.

I just try to take everything in my stride.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

I'm really go-with-the-flow, but I take things really seriously. At the same time, when things don't go my way, I don't ever freak out. Why? Why freak out?

Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

You have to take everything as it comes.

Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.

Receive all with simplicity that happens to you

Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.