Quotes About Acceptance

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

Happiness is like the weather. Sometimes it's rainy, sometimes it's sunny, and you gotta just go through and accept what's there in front of you.

Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.

I'm trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?

To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

The desire for true happiness is nothing to feel ashamed about.

It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

What, exactly, is the happiness that can be earned by turning away from reality?

Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone, or to recreate it.

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

Lowering your standards is the key to happiness.