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• None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Self, Pathways

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• Practice love and self-acceptance and you'll have an absolutely beautiful life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Yoga, Self

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• We can co-create this change. Spreading the word, learning to treat others with love, acceptance and forgiveness, and bravely stepping up to do our part... it's all part of the great dance of life. You don't have to sit back and wait for it. The most powerful gateway to the universe you have is the present. All the work of so many lifetimes is ultimately completed in a single instant - and you can choose whenever that will be.

  David Wilcock

  Inspirational, Powerful, Waiting

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• I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Character, Effort

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• The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks.

  Adam Rex

  Snacks, Three, Levels

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• Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

  Tom Hayden

  Distance, Trying, Sake

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to tacit acceptance of a world run by crackpot realists and subject to blind drift. And that, you see, is something to which we do belong; we belong to those who are still capable of personally rejecting. Our minds are not yet captive.

  C. Wright Mills

  Running, Mind, World

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings”, p.185, Univ of California Press

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• Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

  Frank Herbert

  Government, Names, Population

  "The Dosadi Experiment" by Frank Herbert, (p. 297), 1977.

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• The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Giving Up, People, Vision

  "New Outlook" Journal, April 1977.

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• I think the main big thing for me has been the acceptance from the U.S. That's still crazy to me. To come over to the U.S. and be a British girl and have all these people know who I am. It's unbelievable and it just seems to be getting better and better.

  Cher Lloyd

  Girl, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.

  Tara Brach

  Philosophy, Compassion, Medicine

  "Radical Acceptance of Desire" by Tara Brach, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2013.

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• Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.

  Alexandra Robbins

  Doe, Social, Translate

  Alexandra Robbins (2011). “The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School”, p.58, Hachette UK

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• The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Reflection, Journey, Self

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• Once in awhile throughout the day...let go into full acceptance of the present moment, including how you are feeling and what you perceive to be happening... Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are. Then, when you're ready, move in the direction your heart tells you to go, mindfully and with resolution.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Letting Go, Moving, Heart

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• During her Oscar acceptance speech, Patricia Arquette called for equal pay for women. Then Oprah stood up and said, 'She's right, I can't live like this. I can't take another second of this living hell.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Equal Pay, Speech, Oscars

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• Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people. Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life. Your attitude toward yourself is determined largely by the attitudes that you think other people have toward you. When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. The best way to build a healthy personality involves understanding yourself and your feelings.

  Brian Tracy

  Attitude, Sibling, Self Esteem

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• It is naïve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it depends rather upon the fact that the evolutionary theory permeates and supports every branch of biological science, much as the notion of the roundness of the earth underlies all geodesy and all cosmological theories on which the shape of the earth has a bearing. Thus antievolutionism is of the same stature as flat-earthism.

  Peter Medawar

  Numbers, Support, Atheism

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• Those who accept freedom of religion as a right are obligated by this acceptance to take the maintenance of freedom of religion as a duty.

  Joseph Leon Blau

  Atheism, Maintenance, Freedom Of Religion

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• If you have these two things - the willingness to change, and the acceptance of everything as it comes, you will have all you need to work with.

  Charlotte Selver

  Two, Needs, Willingness To Change

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• The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our faith, to our self-denial, to our delight in duty. Other evidence than this the Bible knows not God has not given.

  Gardiner Spring

  Humility, Self, Denial

  Gardiner Spring (1819). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.53

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• If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

  Winston Churchill

  Grace, Submit, Ifs

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger is gonna be the new governor of California. During his acceptance speech Arnold said 'I will not let you down.' Unfortunately, at the time Arnold was holding a woman over his head and looking up her dress.

  Conan O'Brien

  California, Speech, Dresses

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• You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

  Louis L'Amour

  Fighting, Desert

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Lonely Men”, p.41, Bantam

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• The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Men, Tasks, Firsts

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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• I feel myself always the patriot of all oppressed fatherlands. Nationality is a historic, local fact which, like all real and harmless facts, has the right to claim general acceptance. Every people, like every person, is involuntarily that which it is and therefore has a right to be itself. Nationality is not a principle; it is a legitimate fact, just as individuality is. Every nationality, great or small, has the incontestable right to be itself, to live according to its own nature. This right is simply the corollary of the general principal of freedom.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Real, People, Individuality

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