We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.
Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.
Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask.
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
Racism was never acceptable to the people who suffer from it.
The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.
Anyone who falls in love is a freak. Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.
The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays the conduct which is pleasing and acceptable to God. The doctrines and examples which distinguish the Order are obvious, and suited to every capacity. It is impossible for the most fastidious Mason to misunderstand, however he might slight or neglect them. It is impossible for the most superficial brother to say that he is unable to comprehend the plain precepts and the unanswerable arguments which are furnished by Freemasonry.
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.
Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.
To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable.
I think we should do better next week, better the week after, and better right throughout the course of our government. Sometimes in parties these things happen, but it is not acceptable and I do believe that what people now want to do is to debate the future - about policy - and I think the issues about what Tony Blair will or will not do are going to be left to Tony Blair
That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.
There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.
I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.
Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable.
Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.
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