Quotes About Acceptance

Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.

Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.

You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

Our goal is to enjoy, not to achieve perfection

I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'

What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.

Feel that you are happy without any cause for happiness.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.

Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is.

We can't wait to be happy until we remove one hundred percent of suffering. That moment will never exist.

One's greatest happiness is also his greatest weakness.

Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.

Practice appreciation for who you are and what you have… and allow your life to unfold in the most amazing way.

When you open your mind, you let happiness in.

Happiness is when you are content with who you are, what you are, and where you are.

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