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Acceptance Quotes
"Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one."
"What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?"
"One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."
"There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go."
"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
"Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it."
"Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No."
"After death, I will lose my opportunity to complain so I will accept everything with love."
"Accept yourself as you are, and that is the beginning of wisdom."
"Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own."
"Don't resent a woman for who she is not, love her for who she is."
"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning."
"'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years."
"A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion."
"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot."
"The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive."
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