Accepting Quote by Jack Gilbert

The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.

— Martha Beck

It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!

— Fred Rogers

It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.

— Dalai Lama

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

— Henry David Thoreau

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.

— Steven Amsterdam

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The real gladiators of the world are so humble in their origins and unremarkable in appearance that when we stand next to them in…

— James Lee Burke

Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once…

— Annie Dillard

We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.

— Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with…

— Lewis B. Smedes

The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we…

— Saint Augustine