Acceptance Quotes
Writing involves an acceptance of being on the margin, the threshold, a galvanization out of received notions into a more activated, kinetic, often perilous, seeing.
The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life dramatically improves.
All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.
The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.
Don't confuse acceptance with being a naïve or weak person. Acceptance does not mean condoning negative behavior, staying in a bad situation, or not working to improve our life and the world.
Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall.
Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.
The very acceptance of the limited means of the human condition makes for endless creativity.
From a place of stillness, openness, forgiveness and acceptance you can renew your commitment to any eating plan you like.
The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy.
Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.
In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.
I feel like decades ago it was either youre black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.
Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to drinking that clear cool glass of love.
How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.
Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.
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.
What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.
The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.
Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.
I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.
Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.
old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.
There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.
Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.
Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.
The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.
Be gentle with yourself. Kiss away your (imagined) faults and remember, if you saw you as God sees you, you would smile a lot.
The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.
The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.
Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.
Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.
It is so much easier sometimes to sit down and be resigned than to rise up and be indignant.
Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love
Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.
I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.
I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance.
It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.