Acceptance Quotes - Page 14

• The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance, you know -- Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!

  Lenny Bruce

  Mother, Entertainment, Watches

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• The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling the holocaust, is a pornography. For the ultimate selling job on ultimate violence one must read those works of fiction issued by our government as manuals of civil defense, in which you learn that there's nothing to be afraid of if you've stockpiled lots of dried fruit.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Jobs, Business, Government

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• Releasing the emotional energy and focusing on acceptance dissipates anger and restores balance.

  Jude Bijou

  Emotional, Balance, Energy

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• I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Beautiful, Hair, Self

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'My new novel is about love, race... and hair'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.

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• I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages:
  (i) this is worthless nonsense;
  (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view;
  (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant;
  (iv) I always said so.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Views, Interesting, Usual

  Journal of Genetics, Vol. 58, 1963.

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• Me and my friends, we do this little two-finger-on-two-finger thing when we talk to each other, because we're Twitterholics. Maybe #acceptance. I feel like we pay a lot of attention to the word "tolerance," and I don't really like it. I get it, but I don't need you to tolerate this. It is. When you accept something, it's much deeper.

  Rosario Dawson

  Tolerance, Attention, Accepting

  "Rosario Dawson Acts Up". Interview With Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2011.

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• Tapping is a powerful tool that can truly heal, allowing forgiveness, love, and acceptance into your life, particularly when used along with affirmations.

  Louise Hay

  Powerful, Tools, Affirmation

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• In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at the bottom of a long column of numbers and come up with a sum. Perhaps it's one that fills you with contentment and endows you with a level of courage and an acceptance that you didn't know you possessed.Or maybe not.

  James Lee Burke

  Heart, Numbers, Long

  James Lee Burke (2010). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Mistake, Ignorance

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• I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

  Robert Plant

  Apologizing, Financial, Periods

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• Be the kind of person you want to be attracted to. You will find that you are less and less drawn to people with difficult character issues and more desirous to find people who are full of grace, safety, acceptance, and a hunger to grow.

  John Townsend

  Character, Issues, People

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• There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.

  Paul Pearsall

  Mystery, Inspired, Closure

  Paul Pearsall (2007). “AWE: The Delights and Dangers of Our Eleventh Emotion”, p.27, Health Communications, Inc.

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• With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

  Michelle Cruz

  Compassion, Self, Hatred

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• Success is total self-acceptance.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Self, Self Acceptance

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• The more you surrender to the fear of someone's disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for someone's approval. Within you is a void that should have been filled by self-esteem. When you attempt to fill it with the approval of others instead, the void grows deeper and the hunger for acceptance and approval grows stronger. The only solution is to summon the courage to honor your own judgment, frightening though that may be in the beginning.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Eye, Approval Of Others

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Respect depicts acceptance while disrespect is rejection.

  Fawad Afzal Khan

  Rejection, Disrespect

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• It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

  Tommy Rettig

  Kids, Rejection, Periods

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• Blay said yet again, that old, familiar voice cutting through all of those years of rejection and judgment, giving him not just a rope of acceptance to hang on to, but a flesh-and-blood hand to lead him out of the darkness of his past... And into a future that didn't require lies or excuses, because what he was, and what they were, was both extraordinary-and not hing out of the ordinary. Love, after all, was universal.

  J.R. Ward

  Lying, Cutting, Past

  J.R. Ward (2013). “Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.578, Penguin

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• Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it; it reaches out with acceptance, for there is no doubt in it; it reaches out as a child for there is no uncertainty about it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Depressing, Children, Joy

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• If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.

  Ouida

  Men, Cycling, Grace

  Ouida (1901). “Critical Studies”

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• Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

  Robert Breault

  Tolerance, Chocolate, Sprinkles

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• Belief is the uncritical acceptance of something you can't prove.

  Hans Holzer

  Belief, Prove

  Hans Holzer (1991). “America's haunted houses: public and private”, Longmeadow Pr

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• Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Done, Wonderful, Maxims

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• Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.

  Maureen Howard

  Needs, Helping, Aging

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• It is so much easier sometimes to sit down and be resigned than to rise up and be indignant.

  Ella Winter

  Down And, Sometimes, Easier

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