Accepting Quotes - Page 15

• There's a power that brings us to things, and there's a power that lets us move away from things, from people, places, experiences. And what you learn to do in metaphysics is accept.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, People

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• You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Taken, Buddhism

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• Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

  Ridley Scott

  Philosophy, People, Degrees

  "Sir Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. May 6, 2005.

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• Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.

  Carol Vorderman

  Thinking, Turning 50, Size

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• The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.

  Evangelos Venizelos

  Country, Greek, Majority

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• I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Beautiful, Thinking, Different

  "Ayelet Waldman on Acting Your Age". Interview with Tim J Luddy, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  People, Perfect, Leader

  "Evan Rachel Wood, Uncut". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. October 5, 2011.

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• You have to be determined, and be able to accept, 'No.' I've heard, 'No,' a thousand times, and I've heard, 'Yes,' a handful of times.

  Kenny Wormald

  Able, Determined, Heard

  "Kenny Wormald Interview FOOTLOOSE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 14, 2011.

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• Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.

  William Zinsser

  Believe, Writing, Emotional

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• Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Men, Squares

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• I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there's been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Nashville, Favorites Things

  "Taylor Swift On Songwriting, Nashville & the Thrill of Spontaneous Music Making". Associated Press Interview, www.billboard.com. October 15, 2013.

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• As you meditate, you will be able to look at the beauties and horrors of life and accept them with an equal mind. You will love more and be kinder to those around you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Mind

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• Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Kings, Yoga

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• Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

  Joseph Sugarman

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

  J. C. Macaulay

  Men, Giving, Advice

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• Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Giving Up, Blessed

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• One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Two, Church Today

  Vance Havner (1967). “Living in Kingdom Come”

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• So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Ideas, People, Culture

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.192, Penguin

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• If Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand something, it’s not defeat. It’s not even something he has to accept. It’s merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.

  Sarah Lacy

  Zuckerberg, Challenges, Needs

  "The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World’s Least Social People" by Sarah Lacy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

  Trent Lott

  Overcoming, Generations, May

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• I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

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• I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.

  Grant Morrison

  Jobs, Men, Expectations

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.

  Adam Michnik

  Cowboy, Thinking, World

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• I have cellulite - and had it even when I was at my absolute thinnest. I'm never not going to have cellulite. People need to just accept that it's there and maybe dress accordingly or use body makeup to cope with it.

  Holly Madison

  Makeup, People, Dresses

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• The black church will accept anybody.

  James McBride

  Black, Church, Black Church

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