Acceptance Quotes - Page 18

• My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

  Frank Ocean

  Smart, Pride, Mind

  "Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Forgiveness entails the authentic acceptance of our own worthiness as human beings, the understanding that mistakes are opportunities for growth, awareness and the cultivation of compassion, and the realization that the extension of love to ourselves and others is the glue that holds the universe together. Forgiveness...is not a set of behaviors, but an attitude.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Forgiveness, Attitude, Mistake

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• Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side and not get enamored or depressed by either.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Dark

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• Make friends with guilt. Guilt is a beautiful emotion that alerts us when something is wrong so that we may achieve peace with our conscience. Without conscience there would be no morality. So we can greet guilt cordially and with acceptance, just as we do all other emotions. After we respond to guilt, it has done its job and we can release it.

  Glenn R. Schiraldi

  Beautiful, Jobs, Guilt

  Glenn R. Schiraldi (2007). “10 Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem: How to End Self-Doubt, Gain Confidence, & Create a Positive Self-Image”, p.126, New Harbinger Publications

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• That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!

  Robert McCloskey

  Book, Necks, Rope

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• The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension and development of instinctual needs, it works for rather than against the status quo of general repression - one might speak of "institutionalized desublimation". The latter appears to be a vital factor in the making of the authoritarian personality of our time.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Personality, Liberty, Needs

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.74, Beacon Press

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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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• Physical strength (hard work), mental strength (perseverance) and spiritual strength (love & acceptance) are the keys to continuous growth.

  Rickson Gracie

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Hard Work

  FaceBook post by Rickson Gracie from Dec 05, 2014

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• 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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• The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being.

  Thomas I. Emerson

  Character, Men, Expression

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• One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Cities, Multicultural, Great Things

  The Scene interview, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2007.

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• Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Life, Lessons, Action

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• Every single American can exclaim, 'Nothing justifies what they did in New York and Washington,' not even the bombs that our government has dropped on them for ten years or the embargo that has caused the deaths of so many children. That's of course true...The issue is simply an acceptance of reality and a fundamental fact of life: When governments do bad things to people, people sometimes retaliate.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  New York, Children, Reality

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• All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

  James A. Michener

  Fall, Games, Play

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• Things past redress are now with me past care

  William Shakespeare

  Caring, Past, Care

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 3, l. 171

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• It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.

  Jane Austen

  Mr Collins, Hands, Doe

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.96

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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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• No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.

  Douglas Yates

  Technology, Achieve, Theory

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• The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

  Childe Hassam

  Art, Term, Impressionism

  Ulrich W. Hiesinger, Childe Hassam, Jordan-Volpe Gallery (1994). “Childe Hassam: American impressionist”, Te Neues Pub Group

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• If we do not get a universal acceptance of the constitution the likelihood of the violence continuing is there. If it had been an inclusive exercise -- as when everybody had embraced the constitution and everyone saw his interest protected by the constitution -- I think it would have been a rallying exercise. We are not there at this stage

  Kofi Annan

  Exercise, Thinking, Saws

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• The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

  M. Scott Peck

  Suffering, Denial, Definitions

  M. Scott Peck (1983). “People of the Lie”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Resistance, Identification

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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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• The yoga of love is the yoga of acceptance. Love teaches us that which is most important is self-acceptance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Love Is, Self

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• Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Character, Competition

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