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Accepting Quotes by Alain de Botton
- The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives…
- Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are…
- People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
- It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they…
- It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living…
More Accepting Quotes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with… — Marcus Aurelius
- If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought… — Teresa of Avila
- I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just… — Amy Adams
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the… — Antonio Banderas
- Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself. — Tyra Banks
- If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a… — William Barclay
- I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition… — Henry Adams