Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

What is important is to realize that whether we understand fully who we are or what will happen when we die, it's our purpose to grow as human beings, to look within ourselves, to find and build upon that source of peace and understanding and strength that is our individual self. And then to reach out to others with love and acceptance and patient guidance in the hope of what we may become together.

Jody Williams

Go beyond tolerance to acceptance.

Louise Hay

I release all criticism. I only give out that which I wish to receive in return. My love and acceptance of others is mirrored to me in every moment.

Lou Rawls

I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

Madeleine L'Engle

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

Lucy Hale

My body is normal, and I'm not trying to prove anything.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

Louise Bogan

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing.

John Fowles

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

John Fowles

It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.

John F. Kennedy

We must formulate, with both imagination and restraint, a new approach to the Middle East - not pressing our case so hard that the Arabs feel their neutrality and nationalism are threatened ... while at the same time trying to hasten the inevitable Arab acceptance of the permanence of Israel ... We must ... seek a permanent settlement among Arabs and Israelis based not on an armed truce but on mutual self-interest.

Lionel Trilling

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

Linus Pauling

The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used-we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immmorality.

Linda Lingle

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.

Leo Tolstoy

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

Leo Buscaglia

To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

Joyce Meyer

Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God’s acceptance and approval of us.

John Knowles

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

Lucy Stone

The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.

M. F. K. Fisher

old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

Mahatma Gandhi

The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.

Freya Stark

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.

Joshua L. Liebman

Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare, that mediocrity is a portion of almost all of us, but that we can contribute from the storehouse of our skills to the enrichment of our common life.

Joshua L. Liebman

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

Otto Rank

Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.

Ouida

If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.

Maria Mitchell

Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.

Haruki Murakami

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

Harlan Ellison

I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

M. Scott Peck

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.