Accepting Quotes

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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world. — W. Somerset Maugham
Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to… — Douglas Coupland
What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Ã‰owyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance… — J.R.R. Tolkien
If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It… — Kathleen Norris
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept… — Jodi Picoult
Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has… — Hunter S. Thompson
(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied… — Edward de Bono
Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered. — Lloyd Alexander
If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those… — Dalai Lama
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate;… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses… — Albert Camus
To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of faith rests upon… — Pope Benedict XVI
If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you… — Carter G. Woodson
To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life… — Jack Kornfield
Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot… — Kurt Vonnegut
Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the… — Ray Bradbury
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs? — Marcus Aurelius
The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a… — Hermann Hesse
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth,… — M. Scott Peck

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