Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Clarence Stedman

The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.

Eckhart Tolle

Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.

Eckhart Tolle

Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.

Eckhart Tolle

The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all – from the most simple task to the most complex.

Eckhart Tolle

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement. The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.

Eckhart Tolle

The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that's what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you see what this moment requires: what is it that is required now so that life can express itself more fully?

Edward Sapir

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

Eartha Kitt

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

Dean Acheson

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

David Hume

The more tremendous the divinity is represented, the more tame and submissive do men become his ministers: And the more unaccountable the measures of acceptance required by him, the more necessary does it become to abandon our natural reason, and yield to their ghostly guidance and direction.

Edna Ferber

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

Benjamin Franklin

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Barbara Walters

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

bell hooks

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.

bell hooks

The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.

Arundhati Roy

Acceptance spells death to a writer.

Arianna Huffington

Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance

Elias Canetti

The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

B. C. Forbes

A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.

What we need now from the Libyans is not equivocal or conditional statements, but simple straightforward acceptance. We expect their deeds to be the proof of their stated intentions.

Bernie Siegel

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

Bruce Springsteen

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Brian Tracy

To increase your level of self acceptance, think of your unique talents and abilities.

Brian Tracy

Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

Deepak Chopra

Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.

Deepak Chopra

What is, is simply what is. Allow it and rejoice in it.

Deepak Chopra

The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Alan Watts

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

Diane Wakoski

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.