Quote by John Fowles Download Open image ““No doubt our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.”” — John Fowles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that make us… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“Instead of accepting ourselves as we are, we try to imitate what we see around us.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“How many of us allow others to define us and thus we become what they want us to be, not what we should be… — Lisa Renee Jones Copy Share Image
“Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
“Despite our wish we aren’t always able to be who we’d like to be. However, who we are is what makes us especial.” — Victor Bello Accioly Copy Share Image
“We are what we are by what we choose to be. and that which we choose will always guarantee that which we become” — Etyang Elly Emod Copy Share Image
“If you can't accept yourself for who you are, how can you expect others to.” — Gabriel Common Copy Share Image
“You must accept yourself for who you are, to become the person that you want to be.” — Niat Copy Share Image
“Refusing to rate what we perceive helps us to cultivate feelings of acceptance rather than judgement, as we stop demanding that life be other… — Sarah Napthali Copy Share Image
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
