Acceptance Quotes

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our… — Samuel McChord Crothers
If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others? — Hasdai ibn Shaprut
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales. — Janet Flanner
The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live. — Kay Boyle
Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in. — Sara Jeannette Duncan
I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing… — Raquel Welch
Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom. — Arnaud Desjardins
Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. — Longchenpa
Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others. — Susan L. Taylor
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire.… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Autism is not a choice. Acceptance is. Imagine if the opposite was true. — Stuart Duncan
The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking… — Kurt Lewin
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic… — Fritjof Capra
Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they… — Carl Sagan
You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content. — Sally Jessy Raphael
Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim. — Ivor Cutler
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself. — Morrie Schwartz
We deliberate not about ends, but about means. — Aristotle
The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. — Jean Cocteau

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