Accepting Quotes - Page 14

• I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there's been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Nashville, Favorites Things

  "Taylor Swift On Songwriting, Nashville & the Thrill of Spontaneous Music Making". Associated Press Interview, www.billboard.com. October 15, 2013.

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• It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

  Rosa Parks

  Justice, Injustice, Protest

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• To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.

  Robert Breault

  Faith, Requirements

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• What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Parent, Sometimes

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• The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

  Robert Breault

  Parent, Bruises, Hardest

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• I open my arms wide and declare with love that I deserve and accept all good!

  Louise Hay

  Arms, Wide, Deserve

  Louise L. Hay (2010). “Meditations to Heal Your Life”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways.

  Warren Jeffs

  Prayer, Race, Rocks

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• In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.

  W. H. Auden

  Moving, Mean, Men

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• When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Errors, Democracies Have

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 12, p. 330, 1977.

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• I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Believe, Responsibility, Men

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

  Paula Cole

  Cities, Bigs, Versions

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• We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.

  Ruth Benedict

  Important, Roles, Inheritance

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• It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Suffering, Obedience

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• So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

  Thucydides

  Truth, Men, Hands

  Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.29, Delphi Classics

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• The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

  Duane Michals

  Believe, Eye, Focus

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• We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Chance, Enough, Despotism

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

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• There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

  Robert Powell

  Simple, Alive, Reason

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• I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.

  Jeannette Walls

  Cute, Fall, Age

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• One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.

  Jonathan Raban

  Family, Acceptance, Brave

  Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial

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• It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.

  Israel Shenker

  God, Believe, Men

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• The less harshly we judge ourselves, the more accepting we become of others.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Judging, Judgment

  Harold H. Bloomfield, Leonard Felder (1996). “Making Peace with Yourself”, Random House LLC

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• Wants and needs are closely connected. And all our needs, even the ones we're not completely aware of yet, will be met. Be grateful that God knows more about what we need than we do. Sometimes when we pray, we get what we want. Sometimes we get what we need. Accept both answers-the yes's and the something else's-with heartfelt gratitude. Then look around and see what your lesson and gift is.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Prayer, Grateful

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• Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

  Harold Rosenberg

  Struggle, Self, Numbers

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• There is a lot of difference between offering a garland of flowers bought from a shop and one that we make out of flowers picked from our home garden. When we plant the flowers, water them, pick the flowers, make the garland and take it to the temple, thoughts of God alone live in our minds. The Lord accepts anything offered to Him with intense Love. When we buy a garland at a store and place it on the deity it is only a ceremonial act while the other is a garland of pure devotion and an act of love.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Flower, Home

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• Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Eight, World

  Luther, Martin (2000). “The Complete Sermons of Martin Luther: Volume 4”, p.309, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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