It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past.
I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.
But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.
By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.
I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.
You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?
How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.
I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.
We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.
I'm not good at accepting help.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.
I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
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