Accepting Quotes

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Maturity is developed by respecting others and accepting responsibility for violating that respect. — Wes Fesler
That could be applied to whatever you feel. Maybe anger is your thing. You just go out of control and you see red, and the… — Pema Chodron
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it — Larry McMurtry
If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member — Oscar Wilde
In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and… — William C. Menninger
The person I loved...was the 'past' you. If I couldn't accept that 'past' you, then there won't be time in the future to do so... — Dohee
The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
There is no one against us in this world but ourselves. You are against you. A failure to love, embrace, and accept yourself based on… — Barclay Littlewood
Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in, and go on living lovingly. — Takashi Nagai
A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it… — Murray Kempton
Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open, accept help when… — Mildred Dresselhaus
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything… — Ferdinand Marcos
I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out,… — Ian Hart
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the… — Bertrand Russell
You have so little faith in yourself because you are unwilling to accept the fact that perfect love is in you, and so you seek… — Kenneth Wapnick
Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange. — Robin Morgan
I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom… — John Pugsley
The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a… — Joseph Sobran
[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's what… — David Quammen

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