Accepting Quotes - Page 23

• To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.

  Ernest Kurtz

  Inspirational, Maturity, Giving

  Ernest Kurtz (2010). “Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous”, p.131, Hazelden Publishing

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• Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now

  Eyedea

  Agony, Perfection, Connections

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• As an entrepreneur at heart, I am excited to see so many new opportunities, and I am honoured to accept this opportunity to help shape the next stage of HTC's development.

  Cher Wang

  Heart, Opportunity, Entrepreneur

  "HTC appoints Cher Wang as CEO in leadership reshuffle" by Chris Hall, www.pocket-lint.com. March 20, 2015.

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• Most people don't lead their own lives - they accept their lives

  John P. Kotter

  Motivational, People

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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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• Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists would wish us to believe, but a problem-recognizing and -accepting being.

  Allan Bloom

  Believe, Men, Order

  "The Closing of the American Mind". Book by Allan Bloom, p. 229, 1987.

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• We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

  Jose Narosky

  Unjust Criticism, Applause, Protest

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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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• Accepting Turkey as a member of the European club means that the club is open to outsiders, to Muslims, to poorer people, to developing countries, to countries with a slightly different cultural tradition but basically the same values. I think it's dangerous for the West to close the door; it doesn't do us any good and it doesn't do the rest of the world any good. Also, it reduces the danger of a "clash of civilizations".

  Andrew Mango

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  "The Turks Today". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. October 26, 2005.

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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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• I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.

  Fergie

  Girl, Trying, Lines

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• Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

  Robert Breault

  Change, Mean, Want

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• Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

  Robert Breault

  Failure, Awards, Might

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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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• 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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• 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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• Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

  Euripides

  Destiny, Men, Tears

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Dream, Discovery, America

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.98, Verso

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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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• Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

  Harold Bloom

  Finals, May, Form

  "The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages". Book by Harold Bloom, 1994.

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• Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.

  Lynne Truss

  Nice, Fall, Pay The Price

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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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• 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 kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.

  Jasmine Guy

  Kitchen, Important, May

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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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