Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Zukav

Judging is a preemptive attack against that which you most desire - intimacy and acceptance - that is launched before you can be rejected or refused.

Gary Zukav

Your emotional reactions to the evil you encounter and your judgments of it show you what you need to change in yourself. Changing those parts of your personality that judge, react in fear, and cannot love into acceptance, fearlessness, and love is the journey you were born to make.

Gary Busey

It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and simple!

Jim Carrey

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Risk being seen in all of your glory

Jason Mraz

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

Hillary Clinton

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

Herbert Marcuse

The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension and development of instinctual needs, it works for rather than against the status quo of general repression - one might speak of "institutionalized desublimation". The latter appears to be a vital factor in the making of the authoritarian personality of our time.

Herbert Hoover

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

Evelyn Underhill

The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality.

Esther Hicks

I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are.

Ernest Hemingway

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

Graham Greene

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

Harold Wilson

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.

Hugh Prather

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Hugh Prather

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

Hugh Bonneville

I think any film that asks its audience a degree of tolerance and acceptance of those less fortunate than themselves isn't a bad thing from whatever culture you're in or from whatever part of any political spectrum.

Hannah Arendt

Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic.

George Boole

It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an event may happen or fail. With the degree of information we possess concerning the circumstances of an event, the reason we have to think that it will occur, or, to use a single term, our expectation of it will vary. Probability is the expectation founded upon partial knowledge.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural outstreaming.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

Christopher Alexander

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

Christine Feehan

I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.

George Orwell

Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

Jean Cocteau

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.

Fay Weldon

If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

Fay Weldon

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

F. H. Bradley

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Evangelos Venizelos

We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders.

Henry Miller

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

Henry Miller

Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. But to arrive at this end, which is only a beginning (for we haven’t begun to live yet!), a man has got to learn the doctrine of acceptance, that is, of unconditional surrender, which is love.

Henry Miller

Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.

Henry Miller

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.