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• Acceptance. We want someone to look at us, and really see us—our physical flaws, our personality quirks, our insecurities. And we want them to be okay with every square inch of who we are. We’re always afraid we might be too needy or too much work. We put all these limitations on ourselves and our relationships because we’re afraid that we’re not really loved. That we’re not really accepted. We hide little pieces of ourselves because we think that might be the one thing that finally drives away the person who’s supposed to love us.

  Michele Bardsley

  Acceptance, Thinking, Squares

  Michele Bardsley (2010). “Cross Your Heart: A Broken Heart Novel”, p.148, Penguin

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• Only children believe they're capable of everything. They're trusting and fearless; they believe in their own power and get exactly what they want. When children grow up, they start to realize that they're not as powerful as they thought and that they need other people in order survive. Then the child begins to love and to hope his love will be requited; and as life goes on, he develops an ever-greater need to be loved in return, even if that means having to give up his power. We all end up where we are now: Grown-ups doing everything we can to be accepted and loved.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Giving Up, Growing Up

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• Screw that, the questionn at hand is what's your major?" Oded said. "Because let me tell you right now, any answer other than World of Warcraft or Advanced Ninja Studies will not be accepted.

  Rachel Caine

  Hands, Answers, World

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• Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

  Paulo Coelho

  Effort, Elegance, Elegant

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• Gideon was a man who’d lived an entirely solitary life, and yet he’d accepted me into it so completely that he could envision a future I was afraid to imagine. I was so scared I’d only be setting myself up for a heartbreak I couldn’t survive.

  Sylvia Day

  Men, Solitary Life, Gideon

  Sylvia Day (2013). “Entwined with You”, p.64, Penguin

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• When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Oxygen, Order

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Jamie: "I didn't want anybody to be weird around me." Landon: "Including me?" Jamie: "Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!"

  Nicholas Sparks

  Want, Jamie, Fine

  "A Walk to Remember". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Wisdom, Life And Love, Acceptance

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• Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?

  Kiera Cass

  Simple, Generations, Stories

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• Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

  Bell Hooks

  Lying, People, Would Be

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• I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Book, Theory Of Evolution, Dubious

  "Legalism and the Sins of the Church" by L. Roger Sockwell, Xulon Press, (p. 30, 2002.

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• This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood and misunderstood her, he had married her, he had broken her heart, he had looked upon her with those sad and hopeless eyes, he had accepted his banishment, and now he was gone. What a stark and stunning thing was life- that such a cataclysm can enter and depart so quickly, and leave such wreckage behind!

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Eye, Broken

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.325, A&C Black

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• The power, it seduced, whispering to me to weave it into my own cells." A glance over his shoulder. "Before you, I would've no doubt accepted it and it would've destroyed me from the inside out." "Before you," she whispered, "I was shut up inside my heart, protecting it from harm, and never knowing the glory I missed." She linked her hand in his. "You and I, we're a unit. I dare any evil on this earth to tear us apart.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Knowing, Cells

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• An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

  Edwin Land

  Business, Acceptance, Science

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• Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Long, Would Be

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.62, Routledge

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• The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

  Paul Tillich

  Forgiveness, Acceptance, Our Love

  Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.10, U of Nebraska Press

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• Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.

  Willard Scott

  Hilarious, Ego, Fifth

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• After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away sects, which believed that God accepted the torture-sacrifice of an innocent man in exchange for not visiting a worse fate on the rest of humanity. The sect is called Christianity.

  Steven Pinker

  Fate, Sacrifice, Men

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science.

  Carl Sagan

  Integrity, Heart, Science

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 3: "The Harmony of the Worlds", 1990.

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• Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?

  William James

  Lonely, Independent, Science

  William James (2012). “The Will to Believe and Human Immortality”, p.133, Courier Corporation

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• The past cannot be changed or forgotten, edited or erased. It can only be accepted.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Past, Forgotten

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• For love of country, they accepted death.

  James A. Garfield

  Country, Memorial Day, Memorial

  "The works of James Abram Garfield". Volume 1,

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• If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Honesty, Lying, Enough

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• Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

  Barack Obama

  Moving On, Faith, Letting Go

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.207, Canongate Books

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