If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. (Quote by - Peace Pilgrim)

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. (Quote by - Joanne Kathleen Rowling)

In my business, you measure your respect by the enemies you make. (Quote by - Theo E. Colborn)

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. (Quote by - Henry Miller)

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay. (Quote by - William Feather)

Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance. (Quote by - Rhonda Britten)

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. (Quote by - Alexander the Great)

I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable. (Quote by - Brenda Ueland)

The art of ACCEPTANCE is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favour wish that he might have done you a greater one. (Quote by - Russell Lynes)

I'm not a self- made man. I cannot forget those who have sacrificed for me to get where I am today. (Quote by - Jessie Hill)

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Every man stamps his value on himself .. man is made great or small by his own will. (Quote by - J. C. F. von Schiller)

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight, seeing them as they are, without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius. (Quote by - Maude Adams)

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance. (Quote by - Jose Ortega y Gasset)

Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!. (Quote by - Meg Ryan)

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)

I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!. (Quote by - Marie Bashkirtseff)

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)