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Citations about acceptance from religious texts 
(in alphabetical order by the name of the religion)

Contentment is the greatest wealth. --- Buddhism

 

Do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; nor about your boy, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. --- Christianity

 

Continentment is the root of happiness, and discontent the root of misery. --- Hinduism

 

A tranquil mind gives life. --- Judaism

 

Every little yielding to anxiety is a step away from the natural heart of man. --- Shintoism

 

God provideth everyone with his daily food; why, O man, art thou afraid? --- Sikhism

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From the book, Oneness: Great Principles Shared by All Religions, by Jeffrey Moses

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