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  We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Meaningful

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• The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Rejection, Support, Unity

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays, lectures, addresses”, p.373, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.

  Paul Cezanne

  Feelings, Sometimes, Stimulus

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• The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined to accept them as serious like themselves. It's an unfortunate quirk of human nature and ought not to be fretted over.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Ocean, People

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• You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.

  Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

  Country, Would Be, Examination

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• What possibilities exist here? What is presenting itself to me IN THIS MOMENT that I can use? In a very real sense, it's meditation in motion, the practical application of an esoteric practice. And it relies on the acceptance of serendipity. Serendipity, the effect of accidentally discovering something fortunate

  Tom Bergeron

  Real, Practice, Meditation

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• Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Intellectual, Doctrine, Analysis

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Confidence

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• I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

  Tina Turner

  Wise, Wisdom

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  We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational, People, African American

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• Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Inspirational, Positive, Practice

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• Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

  Kurt Cobain

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Love Yourself

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• It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.

  Fred Rogers

  Encouragement, People, Trying

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• We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you.

  Moby

  Animal, Rights, Needs

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• One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

  Morris West

  Life, Wisdom, Pain

  Morris West (1977). “The devil's advocate ; The second victory ; Daughter of silence ; The salamander ; The shoes of the fisherman”

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• For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Home, Fate

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you do your best you learn to accept yourself

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Apology, Accepting Yourself, Self Acceptance

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• A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Thinking, Community

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

  Dan Brown

  Definitions, Imagine, Being True

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Teacher, Educational

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• Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

  Albert Ellis

  Love, Alive, Lovable

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• He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Evil, Historical, Wickedness

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.

  Linda Lingle

  Problem, Homeless, Accepting

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• 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Moving

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