Quotes About Acceptance

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have.

If you want to die happily, learn to live; if you would live happily, learn to die.

Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford-but you'll take him anyway.

Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions-"If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same."

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.

Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her nose all the time.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Happiness comes from ... some curious adjustment to life.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy.

Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent, two, or no children at all.

Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it, and to them only.

If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.

Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.