Accepting Quotes

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You learn to accept defeat graciously in golf. Unlike other sports, the game itself is a constant opponent. It never stops. A golfer is fortunate… — Ben Crenshaw
Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are because,… — Vaclav Havel
Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element of discomfort, but… — Dalai Lama
One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle. — Natalie Portman
Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make the choice that… — David Simon
When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a while or ultimately… — Michael J. Fox
Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others,… — Daphne du Maurier
Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life.… — Eleanor Holmes Norton
We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will… — Muhammad Yunus
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay young forever or to stop aging. But it is possible by… — Eric Liu
Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life. — David Gerrold
Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As… — Daniel J. Siegel
In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never… — Oscar Wilde
No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. — Oscar Wilde
Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms. — Arthur Rubinstein
At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but… — Louisa May Alcott
I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. — Malcolm X

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