Accepting Quote by John Fowles Download Open image “Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.” — John Fowles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accepting Ought
“No doubt our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be. — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
What we intend to be, what we behave to be, Is actually what we turn out to be. — Varun Chauhan Copy Share Image
If you have a clear and decisive vision of how the world should be, you can't be expected to tolerate things that don't fit… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
“The only things that are truly, and uniquely ours is our thoughts, our dreams, our feelings, our creativity, and the way each of us… — Sandra Golden Copy Share Image
What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional. — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
“Who we are and what we are is OUR vision. That we are what others and the world expect us to be is our… — James Patrick Lane 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
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.… — Alan Abel Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image