Acceptance Quotes - Page 37

• There's no one who can say 'this person is wrong there and right here', and that 'one is right about that and wrong about this'. This is what could allow populations, or even two human beings, to live together. We will only solve problems by the acceptance of, and enrichment by, our differences.

  Catherine Camus

  Two, Differences, Together

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• [Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

  Catherine Camus

  Teacher, Writing, Speech

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• The reality is that the "gayborhoods" are going away. It's because of many factors, including the internet and increased acceptance, but mostly it's the cost of housing.

  Cleve Jones

  Reality, Going Away, Cost

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?

  John F. Kerry

  Responsibility, Common, Ideals

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the creativity and the belonging and acceptance is what drew me in.

  Milo Aukerman

  Song, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: vandalamagazine.com

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• What stands between heaven and earth is merely the acceptance of ourselves as apart of this world and our placement of ourselves.

  Timothy Treadwell

  Heaven, World, Earth

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• Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness.

  Laurence Freeman

  Discovery, Solitude, Uniqueness

  Laurence Freeman (1996). “Web of silence: letters to meditators”

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• I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Father, Believe

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all.

  Myrlie Evers-Williams

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

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• I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

  Lady Gaga

  Forgiveness, Love Is, Thinking

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• In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Life, Comfort, Affliction

  The Guardian, July 28, 1989.

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• In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Thinking, America, Literature

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• I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Self, Judging, Disrespect

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• He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Despise, Esteem

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• Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

  Gary Zukav

  Science, Faith Religion, Rejection

  Gary Zukav (1979). “The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics”, Bantam

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• Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.

  Henry Miller

  Simple, Hands, Giving

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.

  Deepak Chopra

  Change, Spiritual, Wall

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “The Third Jesus: How to Find Truth and Love in Today's World”, p.232, Random House

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• Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1. Acceptance 2. Understanding 3. Appreciation Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions? So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.

  Vera Nazarian

  Appreciation, Fall, Thinking

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• Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.

  Ron Fournier

  Grief, Anger, Confusion

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• To enjoy anything, we cannot be attached to it... What we usually try to do is capture any joy that comes our way before it can escape... We try to cling to pleasure, but all we succeed in doing is making ourselves frustrated because, whatever it promises, pleasure simply cannot last. But if I am willing to kiss the joy as it flies, I say, "Yes, this moment is beautiful. I won't grab it. I'll let it go."

  Eknath Easwaran

  Beautiful, Kissing, Joy

  "Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down".

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• Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Doe, Denial

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• You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Sin, Atonement

  Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

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• The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

  Albert Ellis

  Attitude, Recovery, Self

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• Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.

  Albert Ellis

  Suffering, Bleeding, Inevitable

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• When you are fully present, you transcend duality and open into Oneness. In Presence, there is power without opposition. There is love without hate, acceptance without judgment and allowing without control.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Hate, Oneness, Judgment

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