Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

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

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.

Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

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.

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.

For we that live please must please to live.

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.

Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

And God said love your enemy and I obeyed him and loved myself.

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.