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Quotes About Acceptance

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".
~ Lauren Oliver, Delirium
The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.
~ Olivia Goldsmith
Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance
~ Arianna Huffington
When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.
~ Barbara De Angelis
To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
~ Euripides
To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.
~ Alan Cohen
Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.
~ Chanakya
Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk, talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody, do it happily.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.
~ Deepak Chopra
Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.
~ Coco Chanel
If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.
~ Frederick Lenz
I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.
~ Alan Bennett, The History Boys
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
~ Ted Turner
Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness.
~ Elsa Triolet
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less
~ Jodi Picoult
Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.
~ Nhat Hanh
The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
~ Susan Cain
We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby.
~ Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness
~ Eckhart Tolle
Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being.
~ Deepak Chopra
Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.
~ Bill Crawford