Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

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.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

Now is the accepted time.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

If you can allow yourself to trust those little movements round your gut that tell you when something is interesting or exciting, they will tell you where to go.

I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.