The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

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.

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.

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.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

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

For we that live please must please to live.

Now is the accepted time.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

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

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.

Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure.

I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely…for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Change how you see and see how you change.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.

True life is lived with tiny changes occur.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.