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Acceptance Quotes
"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."
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"I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference."
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"Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy."
"The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful."
"Don't worry about how people accept you or react to you. Accept everyone with love."
"If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy."
"You're going to have more rejection than acceptance."
"A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude."
"Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance."
"You don't see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can."
"My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did."
"I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about."
"Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
"We tend to get irritated when we see somebody doing something that is unusual and unfamiliar to our thinking."
"Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above."
"Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks."
"The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission."
"You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that."
"Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life."
"After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means."
"If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place."
"In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion."
"I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech."
"What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance."
"If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it."
"Accept yourself in a way you are created."
"If the wind brushes against you, do not complain; it brushes against everyone."
"To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness."
"Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present."
"Be open minded like the sky. Be accepting like the ocean. Be loving like a flower."
"The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace."
"Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is."
"Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."
"I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms."
"Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance."
"Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets."
"It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain."
"The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been."
"One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance."
"Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance."
"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
"To Acknowledge Demonstrates Acceptance."
"You can't escape the existential suffering of life as long as you are living. So get used to it."
"There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones."
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