My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I started to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever situation I was in as the way things were, I started to see that my happiness depended on my own attitude. When I started focusing on getting the most out of my life the way it was rather than trying to turn it into what I thought it should be, I started to realize that I was, indeed, becoming a much happier person.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.