Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stacy London

Whether you're as healthy as you should be or not, that doesn't disallow you to look your best. Style is only possible from a place of self-acceptance.

Stephenie Meyer

Jacob was hardly in need of any physical protection I could offer. But my arms, pinned beneath Edward's, yearned to reach out to him. To wrap around his big, warm, waist in a silent promise of acceptance and comfort. Edward's shielding arms had become restraints.

Thomas Hardy

If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.

Thomas Kuhn

All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.

Thomas Keating

The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.

Victoria Moran

Happiness comes from accepting the present situation, whether it is something you wish to savor as long as possible or change as quickly as you can. Neither is possible without acceptance as the starting point, because without acceptance you are living on the periphery of your life. There at the edges, you can't fully enjoy the good stuff or do anything about the rest.

Victoria Moran

Life has its rhythm and we have ours. They're designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity.

Victoria Moran

If you don't accept yourself, you won't live fully, and if you don't live fully you'll need to get full some other way.

Robert Frost

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Richard V. Allen

Explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview for them with First Lady Nancy Reagan: I didn't accept it. I received it.

Ricky Martin

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

Rob Bell

It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I always will be. I don't have to do anything. I don't have to prove anything, or achieve anything, or accomplish one more thing. That, exactly as I am, I am totally accepted, forgiven, and there is nothing I could ever do to lose this acceptance.

Tullian Tchividjian

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.

Tullian Tchividjian

Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.

Tullian Tchividjian

Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.

Tullian Tchividjian

God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.

Ugo Betti

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Rebecca West

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

Ryan Murphy

I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me.

Tyler Oakley

The Internet is accelerating the speed of acceptance and social justice.

Rhonda Britten

Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.

Rhonda Britten

Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance.

Sam Cooke

There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will

Robert M. Pirsig

We always condemn most in others that which we most fear in ourselves.

Robert M. Pirsig

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Robert Farrar Capon

Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that at the end of the day there will at least be one redeeming card of our very own. Lord, if it is not too much to ask, send us to bed with a few shreds of self-respect upon which we can congratulate ourselves. But whatever you do, do not preach grace. Give us something to do, anything; but spare us the indignity of this indiscriminate acceptance.

Walt Whitman

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

Saul Bellow

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

Saul Alinsky

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.

Sarah Dessen

Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.

Sarah Dessen

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

Roberto Assagioli

The will is not merely assertive, aggressive, and controlling. There is the accepting will, yielding will, the dedicated will. You might say that there is a feminine polarity to the will – the willing surrender, the joyful acceptance of the other functions of the personality.