Accepting Quotes

• We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Ideas, Voice

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• I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

  Sylvia Plath

  Love, Inspirational, Acceptance

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• Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

  Melody Beattie

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Fullness Of Life

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• My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

  Michael J. Fox

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Fullness Of Life, Being Thankful

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• Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Beauty, Beautiful, Makeup

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• Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Gratitude, Art, Acceptance

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• I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Life, Believe, Choices

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• The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Struggle, Rain

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• Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Encouragement, Truth

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• Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

  Barack Obama

  Moving On, Faith, Letting Go

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• The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Life, Happiness, I Hate You

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• The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Change, Acceptance, Second Chance

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• Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

  William James

  Motivational, Happiness, Freedom

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• The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

  Storm Jameson

  Life, Miracle, Way

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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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• Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Strength, Letting Go

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• Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Life, Change, Spiritual

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• Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Change, Life Changing, Acceptance

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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

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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

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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

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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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• I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

  Liv Ullmann

  Missing, Choices, Goes On

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