"Acceptance is not a state of passivity or……" — Peter McWilliams
"Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed."
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130 Quotes by Peter McWilliams
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The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.
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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
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I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two…
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Send the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will have prepared a…
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If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would…
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To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in…
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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
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Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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