Quotes about acceptance
acceptance night insomnia
If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter. Dale Carnegie
acceptance people trying
Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused to salvage what they could from the wreck. Instead of trying to reconstruct their fortunes, they engaged in a bitter and "violent contest with experience"- and ended up victims of that brooding fixation known as melancholia.
acceptance power men
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. E. B. White
acceptance want bugs
There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don't want.
acceptance black-and-white thinking
Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and consciousness. People seem to want there to be an absolute threshold between the living and the nonliving, and between the thinking and the "merely mechanical," ... But the onward march of science seems to force us ever more clearly into accepting intermediate levels of such properties. Douglas Hofstadter
acceptance matter fatigue
Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else. David Foster Wallace
acceptance texas jazz
Most of the international acceptance of jazz education can be traced to the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and the wonderful program they inaugurated. Dave Brubeck
acceptance definitions imagine
That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Dan Brown
acceptance ideas proof
Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.
acceptance awful sense-of-humor
You can accept that things are awful and still have a sense of humor about it. Daniel Tosh
acceptance laughing earth
It will come with a rush and a roar and a shudder. It will come howling and laughing and shrieking and moaning. It will come so fast you can’t help yourself you will stretch out your arms to embrace it. You will feel it before it comes and you will tense yourself for acceptance and the earth which is your eternal bed will tremble at the moment of your union. Dalton Trumbo
acceptance sky pie
The promises of pie-in-the-sky liberal environmentalists that we can convert to 'clean' energy sources and stimulate our economy are based on dubious environmental and economic assumptions, fantastic notions about alternative energy, and a disturbing acceptance of the tyrannies inherent in command-control economies. David Limbaugh
acceptance personality television
Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out theres a certain acceptance that sets in; youre no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present. Doc Severinsen
acceptance overcoming
One completely overcomes only what one assimilates. Andre Gide
acceptance imperfect teach
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life. Anais Nin
acceptance happens
What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out. Anne Hathaway
acceptance perfect joy
Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes. Amy Carmichael
acceptance identity way
Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources. Andrew Solomon
acceptance expectations resentment
Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations. Anthony Hopkins
acceptance animal way
Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. Alicia Silverstone
acceptance german-language legal-system
Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization. Alice Schwarzer
acceptance perfect worry
Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about? Alice Walker
acceptance tolerance wish
Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was. Amy Ray
acceptance happen rate regardless standards
The convergence of standards will happen regardless of the formation of the alliance. But it does show that standards are converging and that their rate of acceptance is increasing.
acceptance hands mr-collins
It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable. Jane Austen
acceptance air together
[Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside. Janet Leigh
acceptance fate faces
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face. Boethius
acceptance thinking talking
We have become this very fear-based culture, especially post-9/11. Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion. I think there would be more love in the world. I'm not talking about rainbows and unicorns and '70s Coca-Cola commercials. I'm talking about gritty, dangerous, wild-eyed love. Radical acceptance of people. Belonging. A good, goofy kind of love.
acceptance self levels
Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.
acceptance self world
Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.
acceptance thinking self
Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.
acceptance tough film
The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy. Arjun Rampal
acceptance intellectual limits
What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"? Antonio Gramsci