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• The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But I came to the conclusion that I should accept awards in the name of the poorest poor, as a form of homage to them. I think that basically, when awards are given to me, the existence of the poor in the world is being recognized.

  Mother Teresa

  Thinking, Awards, Names

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• As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.

  Sophia Loren

  Responsibility, Order, Looks

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• Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Trust, Running, Hope

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.54, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.

  Sylvia Plath

  Struggle, Simple, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.301, Faber & Faber

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• I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Littles, Reason, Ninety

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• Because I could see that all these kids were weird and even they didn't accept me, I knew I was the strangest one of all.

  Sean Barron

  Kids, Accept Me

  Judy Barron, Sean Barron (2011). “There's A Boy In Here: Emerging from the Bonds of Autism”, p.132, BookBaby

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• Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.

  Socrates

  Pain, Soul, Body

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• All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.

  Marya Mannes

  Sex, War, Compassion

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• Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger or a child in central Asia. But I will not accept responsibility for what other people do because I happen to belong to that nation or that race or that religion. I do not believe in guilt by association.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Believe, Responsibility

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• Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.

  Margaret Mead

  Civilization, Ideas, Groups

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or chemical accident, a result of blind evolution. Even though I learned to recognize the lies, the clichés and the idolatries of the human mind, I still cling to some truths which I think all of us might accept some day.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Grateful, People, Able

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Family and a Fortune”, p.104, A&C Black

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• the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

  Agnes Repplier

  Envy, Purpose, Good Work

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• There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

  Agnes Repplier

  Sweetness Of Life, People, Steps

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• The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sometimes, Life Is, Easy

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• Lord, for the erring thought
  Not unto evil wrought:
  Lord, for the wicked will
  Betrayed, and baffled still:
  For the heart from itself kept,
  Our thanksgiving accept.
  For ignorant hopes that were
  Broken to our blind prayer:
  For pain, death, sorrow, sent
  Unto our chastisement:
  For all loss of seeming good,
  Quicken our gratitude.

  William Dean Howells

  Gratitude, Prayer, Pain

  William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.9085, Delphi Classics

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• The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Nature, Practice, Doubt

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Practice, Able

  Shunryu Suzuki (1999). “Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai”, p.65, Univ of California Press

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• By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, by my looking death in the eye and accepting it, by accepting destruction as part of life and no longer wasting my energies on fear of death or the refusal to acknowledge its inevitability. It sounds paradoxical: by excluding death from our life we cannot live a full life, and by admitting death into our life we enlarge and enrich it.

  Etty Hillesum

  Mean, Eye, Reality

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• I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

  Ayn Rand

  Guilt, Facts, Existence

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.368, Hamilton Books

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• There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism, based on man's inalienable right to live for himself. Neither to hurt nor to serve his brothers, but to be independent of them in his function and in his motive. Neither to sacrifice them for himself nor to sacrifice himself for them.

  Ayn Rand

  Hurt, Brother, Independent

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.105, Penguin

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• If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

  Andre Breton

  Discipline, Lines, Moral

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• After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Writing, Men

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• That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Country, Decision, Soldier

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• ... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit. And she is not acknowledging one of the most precious lessons of the women's movement, the lessons of community ... We may not able to tell women that there is safety in freedom. But we certainly can say, with absolute certainty, that for free women, the only safety is in numbers.

  Marlo Thomas

  Punishment, Numbers, Safety

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