Accepting Quotes

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Our way out involves both resistance and renewal: saying no to what is, so that we can reshape and recreate the world. Our challenge is… — Starhawk
A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but… — Emma Goldman
The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it… — Ayn Rand
Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is it not then… — Gustave de Molinari
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones. — John Maynard Keynes
I feel no shame at being found still owning a share when the bottom of the market comesâ€¦I would go much further than that. I… — John Maynard Keynes
I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not… — Juan Carlos Onetti
Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the… — Norbert Wiener
Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor. — Norbert Wiener
Only love expands intelligence.Â To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not… — Humberto Maturana
Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the… — Guy Debord
Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of… — Marshall McLuhan
We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are… — John Owen
The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can… — Alice Miller
In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable. — Shunryu Suzuki
We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from… — Jack Kornfield
Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we… — Jack Kornfield
The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for… — Jack Kornfield
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. — Jack Kornfield
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are. — Jack Kornfield

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