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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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"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot."
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"Acceptance of ignorance (of reality) is the true knowledge path."
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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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"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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"Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance."
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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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"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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"Some mommies and daddies find it hard to acceptKids who are different to the normal set."
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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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"I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it."
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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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"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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"We often mistake letting go for giving up. Knowing the difference betweenthe two can make all the difference in the end."
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"You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that."
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"Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."
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"You can not avoid life or your thoughts you can only make the best of your current situation and move on with a positive mental attitude."
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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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"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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"The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."
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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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"There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones."
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"Age is just reality we create for ourselves."
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"The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful."
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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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"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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"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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"Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done."
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"Accept changes in others, as much as you would want them to accept changes in you."
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"What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted."
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"It's not about describing someone as that's typically an attempt to make whatever they are comfortable for whoever we are. Instead, we may wish to skip the agenda of the description and embrace the wonder of the person."
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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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"You're going to have more rejection than acceptance."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks."
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"The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace."
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