For we that live please must please to live.

Now is the accepted 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.