It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses. — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
It's baffling why the issues relating to climate change - [which] have far more obvious and tangible and much more clear-cut evidence… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“A poem needs understaning through the senses. The point of diving in a lake, is not immediately to swim to the shore,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms. — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the… — Mat Hoffman Copy Share Image
People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing. — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
Does it take a blanket presupposition for a historian to discount some miracle stories as legendary? No, because, as even Bultmann recognized,… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
When you can completely love your ego unconditionally and accept it as part of how you express in this life, you'll no… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
We can only accept friendship from others to the degree that we give it to ourselves. — Kimberly Kirberger Copy Share Image
It's very hard to accept that stoning still exists in the world today. — Jim Caviezel Copy Share Image
I think some modesty actually serves me by just accepting that I am an instrument. I'm not trying to match up to… — Mirah Copy Share Image
To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical &… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
[M]any people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
I`ve heard this theory that this is basically Jeb`s [Bush] people trying to get their supporters to basically put the stake in… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
I think living is serious. Living well, accepting yourself, using your talents to the fullest, enjoying yourself, that's all serious and important...But… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
A miraculous healing awaits this planet once we accept our new responsibility to collectively tend the Garden, rather than fight over the… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
An individual's state of consciousness (awareness) simply means his ability to accept change in his life. It includes new thoughts and new… — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
In Russia, we are ready to listen to our partners, ready to listen to appraisals and assessments when it is done in… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
It does bother me when they [tabloids] drag friends of mine into it and talk about them and lie about them. My… — George Michael Copy Share Image
The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes? — Michael Johnson Copy Share Image
Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
The ingredients for another Palestinian uprising are always there because as long as there is so much violence it is bound to… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
![“It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.” quote by Alain de Botton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b34/alain-de-botton-221_accepting_it-is-not-just-nature-that-defies-us-hum_2567295.jpg)
![“It's baffling why the issues relating to climate change - [which] have far more obvious and tangible and much more clear-cut evidence about the cause - have been slower for people to accept as a given.” quote by Sylvia Earle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1c0/sylvia-earle-1756_accepting_it-s-baffling-why-the-issues-relating-to_2571847.jpg)
![“[M]any people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of the world. Yet we seem condemned by our consitution to treat these representations as if they were the world, for our everyday experience feels as if it were of a given…” quote by Francisco Varela](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/02c/francisco-varela-42411_accepting_m-any-people-would-accept-that-we-do-not_2580091.jpg)
![“I`ve heard this theory that this is basically Jeb`s [Bush] people trying to get their supporters to basically put the stake in Marco Rubio because if people are talking about accepting [Donald] Trump over [Ted] Cruz, what they`re really saying is Marco Rubio`s no longer viable.” quote by Chris Hayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4ff/chris-hayes-2208_accepting_i-ve-heard-this-theory-that-this-is-basi_2580237.jpg)
![“It does bother me when they [tabloids] drag friends of mine into it and talk about them and lie about them. My friends have no part in it; they're not celebrities, so why should they have to accept the downside of celebrity? That worries me for a bit.” quote by George Michael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/405/george-michael-1332_accepting_it-does-bother-me-when-they-tabloids-dra_2583648.jpg)
