Acceptance Quote by Thomas Merton

Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value.

— Anonymous

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they…

— Brian Tracy

“I’d like them to appreciate the power of the individual—and I don’t mean me; I mean the power each person has to make choices…

— Kenny Porpora

And it’s not just that ‘we all need somebody to lean on’; recent work on giving support shows that caring for others is often…

— Jonathan Haidt

I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but…

— Neil Simon

there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to “do well”…

— Rolf Potts

There are these people who keep taking you in and feeding you and loving you and making the world a tiny bit safer than…

— Anne Lamott

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency,…

— John Stuart Mill

The great hope of society is in individual character.

— William Ellery Channing

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of…

— Rebecca Solnit

Chronically insecure people easily lose their altruism, tolerance, and respect for non-conformity. If they have no alternative on offer, they can be led to…

— Guy Standing

I believe that you and I - and everyone we'll ever meet - has the inborn capacity to be heroic, to take daring, courageous,…

— Tony Robbins