Famous Quotes & Sayings

Serena Williams

My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body.

Michael Polanyi

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

Michael Learned

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

Sebastian Junger

I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.

Seth Godin

There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.

Seth Godin

Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.

Tom Hiddleston

Honestly, I’m happiest when I’m with my best friend and we’re just laughing about life and times, there is nothing greater than friendship in this world. And that kind of sort of mutual acceptance ; to feel known and understood by people and to feel like you know and understand them back is all you can ask for.

Tom Hiddleston

TRUE LOVE IS AN ACCEPTANCE OF SOMEONE ELSE FOR WHO THEY ARE.

Toks Olagundoye

The only way to come to a full acceptance and understanding of yourself is to embrace your own culture, quirks and differences while learning about those around you and exploring, incorporating and embracing their cultures, differences, quirks, etcetera.

Siobhan Davies

On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.

Simon Van Booy

I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.

Sinead O'Connor

If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign!

Rajneesh

Enlightenment happens only in that moment when there is no complaint in you,when you are not going anywhere, not desiring, not condemning, not judging.You simply exist and with total acceptance. This moment there is enlightenment.

Rajneesh

Those who go on telling you to amend your nature and improve upon yourself are very dangerous people. They are one of the basic causes for your not being enlightened. Nature cannot be amended; it has to be accepted. There is no way to be otherwise. Whosoever you are, whatsoever you are, that's how you are -- that's what you are. It is a great acceptance.

Rajneesh

Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation, because through acceptance awareness becomes possible.

Norman Cousins

The essence of man is imperfection.

Nolan Bushnell

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

John Stott

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

John Steinbeck

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

Sherwood Anderson

Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough.

Sherwood Anderson

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?.

Nicolas Chamfort

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Nicole Krauss

He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it.

Meg Ryan

Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!.

Maxwell Maltz

The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.

Max von Laue

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

Marlon Brando

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

Megan McCafferty

And yet I know I am too young, that we're too young, for me to live my life only as it relates to you. If you had asked me to marry you the night you first told me about your acceptance, I would have embraced Princeton as part of a larger plan that involved me. I probably would have reacted differently. I might even had said yes. Alas, you didn't ask me then. You made plans for your future without me in mind, And that's okay. But how can you now ask me to arrange my life around you?

Maurice Strong

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

May Sarton

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

Max Frisch

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

Maynard James Keenan

Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative. Our goal is nonjudgment, nonfiltered acceptance of everything. So much of our background collectively, especially in the United States, is denying and suppressing and disowning a lot of negativity and the darker areas. You can become swallowed up in it. It's cancerous. The goal should be to define acceptance for everything. To try and consider every aspect. To try to look into the shadows, as well as the light.

Merrill Markoe

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!.