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Acceptance Quotes
"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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"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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"The greatest loss lies in our inability to accept loss."
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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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"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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"What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?"
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"There are too many people who love me, and accept me, and never try and change me, and who don't condemn me in the slightest, for me to waste even one moment of my life anymore worrying about what other people will think."
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"'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years."
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"Life wants you to know yourself, be yourself and love yourself."
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"What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance."
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"Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you."
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"Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy."
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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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"Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No."
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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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"Inasmuch as you cannot predict if and when you will be disappointed, once it happens you have only two choices: You can either let it consume you, until you become bitter and resentful. Or, you can accept what has happened, learn from it and move on. It really is that simple. What we tend to do is over analyze."
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"The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again."
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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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"The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive."
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"I am, for some reason, actually happy with who I am and the muscle, the bones, and the flub that exist beneath these clothes.I don't need to lose 20 lbs. to be attractive.I don't need to starve myself of the good things of life to be healthy.And, I don't need to chase someone else's ideal of what I should be looking like."
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"Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance."
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"Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance."
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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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"And that was the point I knew I just loved this filthy, ugly, loquacious man in a fur coat, who would spend the day roaming all over town, looking for bright lights, and laughter - and then at night come on stage, and unbutton two buttons on his waistcoat, with his clumsy, fat fingers, and show you his heart beneath."
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"One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance."
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"If it's over, then don't let the past screw up the rest of your life."
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"If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy."
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"I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about."
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"Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is."
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"Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it."
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"I cannot hate gay men, I cannot hate homosexuality. At the lowest points in my life, when all else abandoned me, my gay men friends were my sisters, aunts, mothers who lifted me up on their shoulders and reminded me that there is light at the end of the tunnel. If I were to hate gay men, or to condemn them just because they're gay, I would be a hypocrite. I simply cannot turn my back on arms that held me in my darkest hours."
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"My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did."
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"Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out."
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"IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding."
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"People are never going to act exactly like we want them to. So if we stop expecting things from others, we'll find peace in our hearts that will last a lifetime."
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"One truth that has helped me accept some of the most difficult moments and heartbreaking decisions in my life is that I already have all for which I ask. I am blessed! I am delivered from my worries!"
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"I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy."
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"A spiritual man is happy with the whole existence. He says "yes" to the whole existence."
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"The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been."
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"After twelve years of trying, I just decided to stop missing."
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"Sometimes people feel they need to control everything, as if they could! Matters of life and death are out of your hands. The more you come to realize this, the harder you try to prove that you can control SOMETHING, anything. All you can really control is your response to what happens. You cannot control matters of life or death and because of this you are not accountable. You cannot be held liable for anything that you have no power over. Guilt, shame and blame make no sense when circumstances are beyond your control."
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"It's about religious acceptance, it's no longer about religious tolerance."
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"Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child."
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"How often do we truly feel accepted?Are we aware of the collateral effects inflicted when we reject someone or something? How do we move on from a state of constant rejection?How do we gratefully accept rejection?With acceptance, we grow not in a constant state of rejection."
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