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• When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

  Brian Tracy

  Self Esteem, Believe, Thinking

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• Peace cannot come by legislation or through affiliation with any political philosophy...Peace, joy, and happiness can come only through an acceptance of God's revealed plan of life.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Philosophy, Joy, Political

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• A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly.

  Lester Levenson

  Want, Conviction

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• 'Going home' is a journey to the heart of who we are, a place where we can be ourselves and welcome the reality of our beauty and our pain. From this acceptance of ourselves, we can accept others as they are and we can see our common humanity.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Home, Heart

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• The only valid cure for any kind of depression is the acceptance of real suffering. To climb out of it any other way is simply laying the foundation for the next depression.

  Helen M. Luke

  Real, Suffering, Foundation

  Helen M. Luke (2011). “The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine”, p.82, Image

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• Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance or clothing, etc.), approval (praise immediately, specifically and repeatedly), and attention (be a good listener).

  Brian Tracy

  Appreciation, People, Attention

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• People are falling all over themselves to send you free shoes and free cufflinks and colonic irrigations for two. Nobody ever offers you a free acceptance speech. There just seems to be a gap in the market. I would love to be able to pull out a speech by Dolce & Gabbana.

  Hugh Laurie

  Fall, Shoes, Two

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• While fighting for acceptance, we must remember that our own self worth is not determined by whether or not we get it.

  Stuart Duncan

  Fighting, Self Worth, Determined

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• The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Punishment, Self, Church

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1974). “Freedom Under Siege: The Impact of Organized Religion on Your Liberty and Your Pocketbook”, Tarcher

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• Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ. Just as the figure of David lay hidden within the marble, discernible only to the eye of its creator, so the image of God (however tarnished by sin) lies within us, see and known by God Himself. Yet God loves us while we are still sinners. He doesn't have to wait until we stop sinning. Acceptance of His love is a major step along the road that leads to our liberation from the tyranny of sin.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Lying, Eye, Love Is

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• If broken lives and souls are to be healed, it must begin with teaching the practice of the presence... To abide in the presence of the Lord is to begin to hear Him. To follow through on that hearing is to find healing, self-acceptance, and growth into psychological and spiritual balance and maturity.

  Leanne Payne

  Spiritual, Teaching, Healing

  Leanne Payne (1999). “Listening Prayer: Learning to Hear God's Voice and Keep a Prayer Journal”, p.131, Baker Books

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• Christ can be trusted to keep His Word that He will exchange our drab existence for joyous living, abundant life! And while true love, total acceptance, and complete security are rare in our frantic world, the biblical evidence that our desires in these areas will be fulfilled in Christ is abundant.

  Josh McDowell

  Biblical, Desire, World

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• Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love Is, Listening To Others, Speak Less

  M. Scott Peck (2012). “The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, p.116, Random House

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• The promises of pie-in-the-sky liberal environmentalists that we can convert to 'clean' energy sources and stimulate our economy are based on dubious environmental and economic assumptions, fantastic notions about alternative energy, and a disturbing acceptance of the tyrannies inherent in command-control economies.

  David Limbaugh

  Sky, Pie, Promise

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• People think that the art market is about opportunists and hedge-fund managers getting broken art, but what really happened is that there was a new configuration of bourgeois values in the U.S. and an acceptance among the bourgeoisie of contemporary art as an idea. I think that bourgeois people are horrible.

  Liam Gillick

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The secret to responsible trust is acceptance. Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving, knowing that the confinement of the hedge we're in is good and for His glory. Even though what we're enduring may be painful, it's good simply because God Himself has allowed it.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Hands, Knowing, Giving

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.18, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• By definition, if man contributes anything toward acceptance by God, he loses everything. God expects man to be the recipient, not the originator. Jesus paid it all, not 99% of it. Paul wrote, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast"

  Max Anders

  Jesus, Men, Grace

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• When the good student chooses the honest path, free of perfectionism and faking, music study becomes something refreshingly new: a calm oasis of self-acceptance for those who are so used to driving themselves and trying to please others.

  William Westney

  Oasis, Self, Trying

  William Westney (2006). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”, p.135, Amadeus Press

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• It is impossible to call yourself a Christian and defend homosexuality. There is no justification or acceptance of homosexuality... Homosexuality means the death of society because homosexuals can recruit, but they cannot reproduce.

  John Hagee

  Christian, Mean, Impossible

  "What Every Man Wants In A Woman / What Every Woman Wants In A Man". Book by John Hagee and Diana Hagee, 2005.

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• Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance of these drugs as having beneficial properties. And then the step to legalization is not that far behind that.

  Rick Doblin

  Data, Medicine, Long

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• Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for salvation, and non-acceptance thereof is a heinous sin meriting eternal punishment in hell.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Religious, Punishment, Strange

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• To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love Is, Understanding, Challenges

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• But let us emphasize that right and wrong, righteousness and sin, are not dependent upon man's interpretations, conventions and attitudes. Social acceptance does not change the status of an act, making wrong into right. If all the people in the world were to accept homosexuality, the practice would still be a deep, dark sin.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Attitude, Dark, Men

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• It is a very small minority point of view and I think, through continuing to set the tone of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity, you just have to further marginalize such people. Hopefully one day nobody will think that way.

  Helen Clark

  Thinking, Views, People

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• Whatever Scotland was, it was not a matriarchy; whereas the United States was a profoundly matriarchal society - and much more feminine than would be suggested by all that male bravado. That was a front, and a misleading one at that; underneath the male swagger lay a passive acceptance of female dominance - a fact not always appreciated by outsiders.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Scotland, Dominance, Outsiders

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Espresso Tales”, p.31, Anchor

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