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.

Now is the accepted time.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

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.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Gratitude is the way to happiness.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

The only way to live, is knowing you’re going to die. If you're afraid to die, you'll never be able to live.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.