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Quotes About Acceptance

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
~ Erasmus
My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
~ Zhuangzi
We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.
~ Ajahn Sumedho
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
~ Elsa Maxwell
Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
~ Sydney Banks
Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.
~ Antonio Gala
It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.
~ Rumi
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
~ Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven
Laughter has no foreign accent.
~ Paul B. Lowney
We don't have to wait for the right circumstances to have happiness.
~ Rupert Spira
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
~ Jane Rule
We don't even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
~ Charles Bukowski
Happy is he who can give himself up.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
~ Ivan Turgenev
I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.
~ Nigella Lawson
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.
~ Byron Katie
Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college.
~ Johnny Carson
Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.
~ David Steindl-Rast
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
~ William Feather
Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
~ Barack Obama