Quotes about acceptance
acceptance humanity spirituality
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. Rajneesh
acceptance thinking self
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
acceptance men evaluation
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?.
acceptance
One must not hope to be more than one can be. Nicolas Chamfort
acceptance christian common consistent derives jewish modern norms particular public requires revelation teachings
All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian revelation, even if these public norms are consistent with a particular community's revelation and the authoritative teachings it derives from that revelation.
acceptance diagnosis causes
To find the cause of our ills in something outside ourselves, something specific that can be spotted and eliminated, is a diagnosis that cannot fail to appeal. To say that the cause of our troubles is not in us but in the Jews , and pass immediately to the extermination of the Jews, is a prescription likely to find a wide acceptance. Eric Hoffer
acceptance self sin
You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.
acceptance hope ideas meet people sides
The hope is we can come up with some ideas that would meet the acceptance of people on all sides of the issue. Richard Davies
acceptance against award band bruce cheap goes homer merely oneself quiet shot simpson speech using
The Homer Simpson 'Conducting Oneself With Quiet Dignity' award goes to Bruce Dickinson , for not using his acceptance speech as a cheap shot against the Osbournes , but merely thanking his band and fans. Bravo, sir!
acceptance greatness essence
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. James Anthony Froude
acceptance giving good-man
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and unaided could have drawn all the music of the biosphere. In effect natural selection operates upon the products of chance and can feed nowhere else; but it operates in a domain of very demanding conditions, and from this domain chance is barred. It is not to chance but to these conditions that eveloution owes its generally progressive cource, its successive conquests, and the impresssion it gives of a smooth and steady unfolding. Jacques Monod
acceptance men essence
The essence of man is imperfection. Norman Cousins
acceptance ideas adoption
The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own. Nolan Bushnell
acceptance religion apathy
Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable. John Stott
acceptance moments neglect
He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has. Friedrich Schiller
acceptance past incentives
We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all. Franklin D. Roosevelt
acceptance compassion self
Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion. George Gissing
acceptance blessing self
See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation - to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe. Jon Kabat-Zinn
acceptance reality pieces
Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory. Luigi Pirandello
acceptance suffering definitions
The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance. M. Scott Peck
acceptance love-is speak-less
Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.
acceptance differences keys
The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
acceptance create experience gift giving love
You create the experience of love by giving the gift of acceptance and appreciation. Bill Ferguson
acceptance differences making-a-difference
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. Maurice Strong
acceptance balance asking
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much. May Sarton
acceptance light goal
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. Maynard James Keenan
acceptance i-love-myself inadequate
Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!. Meg Ryan
acceptance self miracle
The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance. Maxwell Maltz
acceptance argument wave
Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance. Max von Laue
acceptance self perfection
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being. John Updike
acceptance thinking atheism
The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they are), cannot comprehend why those ways should not be good enough for everybody; and what is more, spontaneity forms no part of the ideal of the majority of moral and social reformers, but is rather looked on with jealousy, as a troublesome and perhaps rebellious obstruction to the general acceptance of what these reformers, in their own judgment, think would be best for mankind. John Stuart Mill
acceptance years taught-us
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives. John Ralston Saul
acceptance self democracy
The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result of such a denial is a growing imbalance which leads to our adoration of self-interest and our denial of the public good.