Acceptance Quotes - Page 21

• Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of all external events. That's all you need.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Judgement, Events, Needs

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.119, Modern Library

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Yoga, Self

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• Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Lord, Idolatry, Control Ourselves

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• In a man they forgive anything. In a woman nothing.

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Forgiveness, Men, Forgiving

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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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• 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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• the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Mistake, Cutting, Past

  Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

  Louis L'Amour

  Body, Might, Heed

  Louis L'Amour (1973). “Treasure mountain”, G K Hall & Co

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• A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Confused, Creativity, Sleep

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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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• To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Land, Generosity, India

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• I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?

  Ellen Goodman

  Religious, Moving, Adoption

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• To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Expectations, Release

  "Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation". Book by Shirley MacLaine, January 1, 1989.

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• Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

  Etty Hillesum

  Rain, Fall, Simple

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.483, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

  Rebecca West

  Loss, Trying, Sometimes

  Rebecca West (1977). “Rebecca West, a celebration”, Viking Adult

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• In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.

  Shana Alexander

  Cult Of Personality, Quality, Heroism

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• It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

  Louise Bogan

  Views, Diversity, Intellectual

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• I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.

  Catherine Marshall

  Forgiveness

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• Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?

  Betty Friedan

  Home, Nursing, Media

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Fate, Yield, Conquer

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.170

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• endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Roots, Joy, Sorrow

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• The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Rejection, Logical

  Edward de Bono (2009). “Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity”, p.187, Penguin UK

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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 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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