Philosophy on acceptance

5 passages from 3 thinkers Marcus Aurelius, Albert Camus, Rainer Maria Rilke — on acceptance.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.
For we carry our fate with us — and it carries us. (Hays translation)

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