Acceptance Quotes - Page 34

• I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism.

  Mike Ness

  Tattoo, People, Missing

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• Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Keys, Psychics

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• Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.

  Nido R Qubein

  Self, Firsts, Steps

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• Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

  Brian Tracy

  Sibling, Self, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.

  Simone Weil

  Atheist, Order, World

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• Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.

  Bill Crawford

  Serenity, Precursor

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• Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.

  Bill Crawford

  Validation, Hardest, Needed

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• On many young actors that don't give their parents proper credit: I'm still waiting for some actor to win, say, an Oscar... and deliver the following acceptance speech: I would like to thank my parents, first of all, for letting me live.

  Bill Cosby

  Winning, Giving, Parent

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• Rappers should be forced to rhyme in their acceptance speeches.

  Doug Benson

  Rapper, Speech, Should

  Twitter post from Aug 25, 2013

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• Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.

  Albert Brooks

  Salad, Steak, Restaurants

  "Albert Brooks: What I've Learned". Esquire, "The Meaning of Life" issue, www.esquire.com. January 2011.

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