Laugh at yourself, not in ridicule but with objectivity and acceptance of self.

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.

For we that live please must please to live.

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

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

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 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.

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.

Now is the accepted time.

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.

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Never eat more than you can lift.

Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the “oughtness” that forever confronts him.