Reconciled

Famous quotes containing the word reconciled:

“One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature’s charge and all progress hinges upon it.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one’s mediocrity at the same time.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)