To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.