Accepting Quotes

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  We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Change, Stay Strong

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  I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Heart, Apology

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• Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Positive, Meaningful

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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  Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Im Sorry, Being Yourself

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  I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Faith, Peace

  "50 years after receiving Nobel Prize, do Martin Luther King's peace prophecies still resonate?", www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2014.

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• Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Change, Worry, Perfect

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  Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Knowing

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.8, HarperCollins Australia

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• Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

  George S. Patton

  Life, Strength, Courage

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• We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational, Acceptance, People

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• When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

  David Korten

  Money, Suicidal, Acceptance

  "When Corporations Rule the World". Book by David Korten, January 1, 1995.

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• We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you.

  Moby

  Acceptance, Animal, Rights

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• Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Positive, Law Of Attraction

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• No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.195, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Acceptance, Past

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• The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

  Jack Kornfield

  Miracle, Way, Minutes

  Jack Kornfield (2017). “No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Doubt, Folks

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• But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Realization, Individual, Institutions

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• By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Abandon, Improving

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• Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Thinking, Trying, Disease

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wind, Agents, May

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4165, Delphi Classics

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• How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Earth, Littles, Slipping

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