Acceptance Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• 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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• letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

  Luce Irigaray

  Respect, Important, Tradition

  Luce Irigaray (2008). “Sharing the world”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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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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• It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Expectations, Requirements, Common

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

  Fay Weldon

  Effort, Tides, Avoiding

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• The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Reality, Religion, World

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• I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.

  Catherine Marshall

  Forgiveness

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• One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the twentieth century was that the twentieth century artist became more involved with personal expression than with celebrating exclusively the values of the society or the church. Along with this change came a broader acceptance of the belief that the artist can invent a reality that is more meaningful than the one that is literally given to the eye. I subscribe enthusiastically to this.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Meaningful, Art, Attitude

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• I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Self, Approval

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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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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• Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Believe, Thinking, Eggs

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.52, Northwestern University Press

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• I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Wise, Wisdom, Pain

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• Every acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a flight from reality in which contact with reality becomes ever thinner, ever more fragmentary. It is impossible to remove oneself totally from suffering, unless one removes oneself from life itself, no longer enters into relationships, makes oneself invulnerable.

  Dorothee Solle

  Reality, Suffering, Denial

  Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press

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• As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live.

  Audre Lorde

  Meaningful, Self, Feminist

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• the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Goal, Joy, Imperfect

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.80, ICS Publications

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• [Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside.

  Janet Leigh

  Air, Together, Causes

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• Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.

  Camryn Manheim

  Self, Giving, Done

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• It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

  Myrtle Reed

  Wisdom, Lifetime, Concern

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.49, Library of Alexandria

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• acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.

  Ethel Smyth

  Art, Self, Steps

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• Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us, crowded into our global concentration camp for the duration. How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves.

  Ogden Nash

  Lying, Mean, Thinking

  "A Gleeful Splash of Ogden Nash" by Jonathan Yardley, www.washingtonpost.com. May 08, 2005.

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• Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Truth, Rip, Responsibility

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Giving, Advice, Made

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