Acceptance Quotes - Page 8

• Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Patience, Love Yourself, Recovery

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• It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Men, Accepted

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.302, Penguin

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• Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, God, Spiritual

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• My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body.

  Serena Williams

  Thinking, Body, My Favorite

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• I don't wanna be shaped like a girl. I love being shaped like a woman, and trust me ladies, your man won't mind either.

  Miley Cyrus

  Girl, Love Is, Men

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• Accept your genius and say what you think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Thinking, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.297, Harvard University Press

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• One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Depression, Teaching

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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• The final and only act of healing is to accept that there is nothing wrong with you.

  Robert Holden

  Inspirational, Love Yourself, Healing

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• Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

  Jean Toomer

  Life, Mean, Prevailing

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Inspirational, Women, Unique

  Die Russische Revolution sec. 4 (1918)

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• Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Life, War, Talking

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.9, Bottom of the Hill

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• Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Religious, Taken, Law

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Book, Firsts, Poet

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Inspirational, Children, Sometimes

  Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.116, Vintage

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• Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.

  Jean Kerr

  Fun, Writing, Simple

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• Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Intellectual, Intuition, Instinct

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• Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Genius, Irresistible, Ifs

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• Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

  Meryl Streep

  People, Trying, Different

  "Meryl Streep's Advice to Women: Don't Worry So Much About Your Weight" By Natalie Matthews, www.elle.com. April 18, 2014.

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• I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable...

  Kate Upton

  Enjoy Life, Want, Miserable

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

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• My body is normal, and I'm not trying to prove anything.

  Lucy Hale

  Trying, Body, Normal

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• It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing.

  Jim Dodge

  Interesting, Growing, Wonder

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• Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, War, People

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• Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.

  Barbara Sher

  Love Yourself, Loving Yourself, Self Love

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• 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.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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