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Acceptance Quotes
"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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"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
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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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"Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance."
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"The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful."
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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 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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"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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"Some mommies and daddies find it hard to acceptKids who are different to the normal set."
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"Age is just reality we create for ourselves."
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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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"If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place."
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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 just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones."
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"Accept changes in others, as much as you would want them to accept changes in you."
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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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"What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted."
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"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot."
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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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"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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"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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"It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain."
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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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"I keep having the urge to cross my hands over my chest, to cover up my breasts, to hide. I'm suddenly aware of how pale I look in the sunshine, and how many moles I have spotting up and down my chest, and I just know he's looking at me thinking i'm wrong or deformed. But the he breathes, 'Beautiful' and when his eyes meet mine I know that he really, truly means 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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"Love is not blind.Love sees everything and says yes to it all."
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"I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference."
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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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"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
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"I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it."
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"And to die with the Warrior's Prayer on his lips. For, 'Yes', he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life. Acceptance."
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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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"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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"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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"Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own."
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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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"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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"No one asks about the truth and non-truth. Should one not think 'why don't others accept it even when I am right?' It is because there is insistence and nagging behind that truth."
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"Life wants you to know yourself, be yourself and love yourself."
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"Taste the love of Christmas, the radiance of Diwali, the brotherhood of Ramadan, the feast of Sukkot and assimilate anything that appeals to you. The end product of such acceptance is a peaceful human society, filled with joy and cheer."
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"You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that."
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