Acceptance Quotes
2150 quotes by 1365 authors
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Your emotional reactions to the evil you encounter and your judgments of it show you what you need to change in yourself. Changing those parts…
— Gary Zukav
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The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete acceptance…
— J C Ryle
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When we truly embrace acceptance, that's when our body exhales and can begin healing.
— Kris Carr
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The first priority will consist in restoring a sense of the acceptance of life as a gift from God. According to both Sacred Scripture and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is…
— Swami Satchidananda
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Yours is only what you always have on you.
— Peter Deunov
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It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and…
— Gary Busey
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That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I…
— Etty Hillesum
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There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been…
— Sam Cooke
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Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.
— Ann Zwinger
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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…
— Ed Ayres
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He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.
— Friedrich Schiller
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We always condemn most in others that which we most fear in ourselves.
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it…
— Robertson Davies
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Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.
— Adi Da
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It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
— Sydney J. Harris
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
— Eric Hoffer
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Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.
— Pandurang Shastri Athavale
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