Acceptance Quotes - Page 16

• I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

  Irvin Kershner

  Dream, Artist, Feelings

  "Irvin Kershner obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.

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• We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here and now. It has already started. It is manifesting itself in international relations; in the breakdown of the social structures of Western civilization; in political, ethnic, and religious groupings; as well as within the psyches of individuals- the momentous event of the coming of the self into conscious realization.

  Edward F Edinger

  Religious, Psych, Practice

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• Until we become fully free, we put up a false front, a facade, to others for the purpose of winning the acceptance and approval of others. We behave in accordance with what we think the other one wants rather than by expressing our own real feelings.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Real, Winning

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• Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Resistance, Identification

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• Until you're willing to accept what already is - the things of your past that you can't change - there's no space for you to create what you want. Acceptance is the key to unlocking the door to true peace, happiness, and freedom.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Past, Space

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 09, 2011

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• An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Greatness, Ideas

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• The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Mean

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.1066, Best Books on

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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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• The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization.

  Pat Robertson

  Civilization, Lasts, Steps

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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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• A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.

  Charles James

  Hate, Sight, Challenges

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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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• 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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• The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Warrior, Self

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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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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• Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Keys, Attention, Transformation

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.120, New World Library

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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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• 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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• There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hunting, Sake, Trophies

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.51, University of Arkansas Press

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• When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory.

  Erich Fromm

  Powerful, Father, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.61, Open Road Media

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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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• Success is total self-acceptance.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Self, Self Acceptance

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• Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.

  William O. Douglas

  Maturity, Government, Journalism

  William O. Douglas (1954). “An Almanac of Liberty”

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• 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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• Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Happiness, Vanishing, Claims

  Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.280, Princeton University Press

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