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Acceptance Quotes
"To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness."
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"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."
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"Accept yourself as you are, and that is the beginning of wisdom."
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"I grieve nothing. I take everything."
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"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
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"Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance."
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"Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done."
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"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot."
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"I must not imagine what is 'not' as a means of escaping what 'is'. Rather, I must understand what 'is' and imagine how I can make it what it is 'not'."
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"You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that."
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"I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it."
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"Don't worry know what you can't change. rest when you can so you'll be ready for tomorrows battle."
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"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning."
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"It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was."
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"Acceptance of ignorance (of reality) is the true knowledge path."
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"The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."
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"In everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That's how we survive."
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"Some mommies and daddies find it hard to acceptKids who are different to the normal set."
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"What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted."
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"Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above."
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"I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech."
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"Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."
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"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
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"I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there."
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"One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."
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"Are you ashamed of what I've done?" she dared to ask. His brow creased. "Why would you ever think that?"She couldn't quite look him in the eye as she ran a finger down the blanket. "Are you?"Aedion was silent long enough that she lifted her head - but found him gazing toward the door, as though he could see through it, across the city, to the captain. When he turned to her, his handsome face was open - soft in a way she doubted many ever saw. "Never," he said. "I could never be ashamed of you."
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"Accept changes in others, as much as you would want them to accept changes in you."
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"The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger."
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"Age is just reality we create for ourselves."
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"Love is not blind.Love sees everything and says yes to it all."
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"Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one."
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"The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful."
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"Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one."
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"It was my letting go that gave me a better hold."
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"And I know that I'm not perfect,But this path feels perfect."
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"I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference."
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"I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms."
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"Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets."
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"There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go."
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"Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it."
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"I don't have the heart to tell him that's the wrong way to think about the world. There will always be more questions Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go."
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"Life wants you to know yourself, be yourself and love yourself."
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"It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain."
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"Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own."
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"If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it."
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"Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present."
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"There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones."
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