"In world mythology, there are countless examples of……" — Simon Van Booy
"In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom."
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68 Quotes by Simon Van Booy
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Coincidences mean you're on the right path.
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Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach…
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I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in…
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The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.
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I don’t see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.
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For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building…
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To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need…
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I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.
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Dreamers conquered the world long ago.
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Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.
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I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms…
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I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of…
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More Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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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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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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