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• Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

  William Shatner

  Hurt, Writing, Winning

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• When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Sad, Military

  Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 3

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• Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.

  Michael Sheen

  Struggle, Hysteria, Waiting

  "Michael Sheen: this much I know" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.

  Simon Sinek

  Tunnels, Vision, Panic

  "Failure Is An Option: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Happiness, Philosophical, Chocolate

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• The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

  Sting

  Live Life, Giving, Live In The Moment

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• The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

  Randall Terry

  Suicide, America, Community

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• Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

  Charlize Theron

  Equality, Marriage Equality, Greater

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Aug 23, 2013

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• The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

  Paul Tillich

  Positive, Confidence, Courage

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.174, University of Chicago Press

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• Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reality, Energy, Looks

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.178, Penguin

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• At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

  Paul Tournier

  Heart, Personality, Needs

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• The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.

  Cornel West

  Joy, Love Relationship, Levels

  "Like Foreigner, Cornel West Wants to Know What Love Is". www.chronicle.com. December 03, 2009.

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• The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

  E. B. White

  Power, Men, Age

  E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”

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• I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Selfish, Boss, Would Be

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• My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

  Thornton Wilder

  Happiness, Laughter, Ice Cream

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 1.

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• Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

  Harold Wilson

  Unconditional Love, Wind, Way

  Harold Wilson (1971). “A personal record: the Labour Government, 1964-1970”

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• Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

  Julian Baggini

  Philosophy, Argument, Blind

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• A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God himself, can command. It is a free gift or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . The justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of God's inexplicable will, nor our trust in God's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Dark, Love Is, Men

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• The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Change, Goal

  "Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits".

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• to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

  Ellen Bass

  Hope, Grief, Love You

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• I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask "Why are we here?" I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mean, Humility, Thinking

  "Horizon (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out)". Documentary (November 23, 1981), later published in "No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman" edited by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.

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• When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhism, Deep Love, Joy

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation”, p.4, Parallax Press

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• The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality

  Gavin de Becker

  Reality, America, Violence

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• I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  World, Blame, Praise

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1734, eBookIt.com

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