Acceptance Quote by Stephen Dunn Download Open image “A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.” — Stephen Dunn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acceptance Moments Resignation Smallness Time World
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it. — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Many of the unexpected opportunities we encounter are small but significant. — S. Truett Cathy Copy Share Image
I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their being. But… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Being here, living now, recognizing our smallness, is a spiritual practice. It allows us to be at peace with our humanity. It humbles us… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“Small is the position of my soul, the posture by which I approach others, God, and myself. When I'm small, I know I can't… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who can’t imagine it at all. I simply observe,… — Ingeborg Bachmann Copy Share Image
“I know that compared to industries, corporations, and governments, an individual is insignificant. In measureable terms my actions hardly matter. But feeling tiny does… — Wendy Tremayne Copy Share Image
“He held her like a new woman and what she felt felt almost as good as love had, and each of them called it love because precision didn’t matter anymore.” — Stephen Dunn Copy Share
If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my poems as meant to be overheard, as I think all of these poems are. It seems to me if you get experience right, even your most painful or humiliating experiences - if you get those experiences… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share
The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will be no more than a shadow or an echo behind some poem. Other times it will be more manifest. I try to write myself into articulations of half-felt, half-known feelings, without program. I'm always working toward getting my… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share
A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in one of his essays: "Reality exerts pressure on the imagination." Inevitably what is omnipresent in the culture exerts its pressure on our imaginations to respond to it, even if indirectly. But in this case the backdrop of 9/11,… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share
What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C… The often… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“God knows nothing we don't know. We gave him every word he ever said.” — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“That time I thought I was in love and calmly said so was not much different from the time I was truly in love and slept poorly and spoke out loud to the wall and discovered the hidden genius of my hands And the times I felt less in love, less than someone, were, to be honest, not so different… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share
“I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share
There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“He didn’t want to be this thin man whose desires were barely covered by skin, standing absolutely still. But everytime he moved there was… — Stephen Dunn 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
You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude. — Ronald Blythe Copy Share Image
“Loving someone who does not love you back hurts, alot, i know. It is liking seeing these pair of shoes at the retail store which do not fit you. Chances are, if you buy them knowing they are a small size, you will have blisters and probably hurt your toes. What i mean is, not everyone will love you back,… — Nomthandazo Tsembeni Copy Share
Take responsibily for your past, the bad memories of poor decisions you took were your choices once, and you liked them for the moment… — Aruho Marvin Copy Share Image
Let us learn to accept and appreciate things now, and we'll find more happiness in every moment we live. Happiness comes when we stop… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Accepting the challenges in life makes it interesting and overcoming them makes it eloquent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Acceptance is the only thing you should teach. Be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Dalit, you must inculcate acceptance, not tolerance. — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image