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“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.”

Common Accepting Acceptance Genius Skills Capable Mediocrity Portions Enrichment Common Life Accepting The Truth

Author:Joshua L. Liebman

“There are people who live lives little different than the beasts,and I don't mean that badly. I mean that they accept whatever happens day to day without struggle or question or regret. To them things just are, like the earth and sky and seasons.”

People Mean Littles Different Happens Earth Accepting Struggle Sky Acceptance Regret Seasons Live Life Beast Day To Day Whatever Happens Earth And Sky

Book:Wild Swan

Source: Wild Swan

“It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing.”

Interesting Accepting Wonder Growing Acceptance Speculation

Author:Jim Dodge

“Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.”

Happiness Accepting Trouble Acceptance Appreciation Making Peace Anything In Life

Book:Return to the Garden: A Journey of Discovery

Source: Return to the Garden: A Journey of Discovery

“Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch it begin to disappear. The principal is this: Begin where you are-accept that. Then change and growth become possible.”

Feels Facts Growth Accepting Watches Acceptance Embrace Disappear Block Where You Are About Yourself Principal Refusal Change And Growth

Book:Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

“You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.”

May Accepting Grace Acceptance Mere Inevitable Sufficient Bitterness Resentment Bitterness And Resentment

Book:The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1, Human Experience; Pt. 2, The Arts in Culture

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1, Human Experience; Pt. 2, The Arts in Culture

“Every now and then, I'll meet an escapee, someone who has broken free of self-centeredness and lit out for the territory of compassion. You've met them, too, those people who seem to emit a steady stream of, for want of a better word, love-vibes. As soon as you come within range, you feel embraced, accepted for who you are. For those of us who suspect that you rarely get something for nothing, such geniality can be discomfiting. Yet it feels so good to be around them. They stand there, radiating photons of goodwill, and despite yourself you beam back, and the world, in a twinkling, changes.”

“A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.”

Ifs Knows Long Bigs Would Be Care Can Do Strength Acceptance Disease Weakness Areas Medicine Take Care Favors Chinese Acknowledge Appropriate Neglect Long Life Short Life Chinese Medicine

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.”

Trying Teach Acceptance Annoying Pigs

Author:Judy Sheindlin

“I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.”

Stills Left Acceptance Attachment Whatsapp Cool Status Cool Attitude

Author:Tom Waits

“We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Happiness Our Lives Acceptance Words Of Wisdom Consequence Avoiding

Book:The Path of Transformation: How Healing Ourselves Can Change the World

Source: The Path of Transformation: How Healing Ourselves Can Change the World

“Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree.”

Way Giving Hate Growing Tree Acceptance Behave Moss Disharmony

Author:Wayne Dyer

“The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.”

Love Reality Growth Love Is Movement Acceptance Humility Divine Weakness Limitation Divine Love Complementary

Author:Thomas Keating

“If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.”

Ifs Trying Purpose Acceptance Purpose Of Life No Point No Point In Trying

Author:Zhuangzi

“The original sin is not that we are inherently flawed, born sinners, or imperfect; the original sin is that we do not recognize, realize that each of us is born perfect, exactly as the universe, God intended us to be. We are all perfect. The universe is perfect. Stop struggling against yourself. Accept that you are perfect. When you do, your highest self will shine through.”

Self Universe Realizing Born Sin Perfect Accepting Struggle Acceptance Highest Originals Shining Sinner Imperfect Flawed Original Sin Self Will

Author:Michael Anthony

“It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for racism, poverty, or sectarian violence. No key stroke can ever clean the air, save a river, preserve a forest. This transformational new technology must be an extension of our hearts as well as of our mind.”

Ifs World Mind Wells Heart Littles Soul Earth Poverty Technology Violence Air Acceptance Keys Racism Rivers Clean Forests Preserves Buttons Strokes Extensions Wire New Technology Delete Button

Author:Tom Brokaw

“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?”

Ifs Perfect Accepting Worry Acceptance Perfection Imperfection

Book:The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker

Source: The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker

“Die while alive And be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, All is good.”

Wells Death Dies Alive Acceptance

Author:Philip Kapleau

“Acceptance and awareness are the keys to freedom.”

Awareness Acceptance Keys

Author:Paul Lowe

“True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that the earth-life can become a conscious instrument of God.”

Earth Spirituality Accepting Acceptance Conscious Transformation Instruments Seekers Instruments Of God Earth Life

Book:The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga

Source: The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga

“It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.”

People Trying Looks Has Beens Values Stuff Acceptance Encouragement

Author:Fred Rogers

“I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.”

Giving Feels Self Honest Honesty Acceptance Self Acceptance Greatest Gifts

Author:Fred Rogers

“I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.”

Inspirational Faces Deals Accepting Principles Four Acceptance Life Philosophy Buddhism Letting Go Following Buddhist Scholar Motto Monk Let It Go

Author:Sheng-yen

“If the Devil's in yer pants make cheese with him.”

Ifs Acceptance Devil Cooking Pants Cheese

Author:Jason Kravitz

“The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I might choose for them. My love is fluid, flexible, committed, creative. My love allows people and events to unfold as they need. My love is not controlling. It does not dictate or demand. My love allows those I love the freedom to assume the forms most true to them. I release all those I love from my preconceptions of their path. I allow them the dignity of self-definition while I offer them a constant love that is every variable in shape.”

“Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to be whatever they choose-even if you irritate yourself about it.”

“To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself.”

Accepting Acceptance Realization Self Acceptance Diamond Accepting The Truth

Book:The Path of the Human Being: Zen Teachings on the Bodhisattva Way

Source: The Path of the Human Being: Zen Teachings on the Bodhisattva Way

“I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.”

People Said Nations Creativity Acceptance Inspired Accepted Resolute Unconquerable Remorseless Unconquerable Will

Author:Winston Churchill

“If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.”

Ifs Pain Time Grows Accepting Acceptance Garden Plant Blow Strikes Over You Willingness Sweat Shed Bent Ache Discomfort Power Plants Aches And Pains

Author:Wendell Berry

“And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.”

Source: Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers

“When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. . . . He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.”

Men Way Facts Lying Suffering Universe Opportunity Accepting Destiny Acceptance Bears Unique Tasks Burden Acknowledge Search For Meaning Mans Search For Meaning Unique Opportunities

Book:Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.”

People Mind Problem Earth Hurt Accepting Acceptance Reactions

Author:Vernon Howard

“Every virtue is a form of obedience to God. Every evil word or act is a form of rebellion against Him. This may not be clear at first; but, if we think patiently, we shall find that it is true. Why were you angry? You will probably find that it w as because you were not willing to accept the world as God has made it, or because you were not willing to leave it to God to deal with the people that He has made.”

People Ifs Thinking World Firsts May Made Form Evil Deals Accepting Virtue Clear Acceptance Willing Angry Made It Obedience Rebellion Obedience To God

Author:Stephen Neill

“When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect.”

Men Needs Religious Accepting Acceptance Weakness Intellect Doctrine Contradiction Absurdity

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

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

Death Accepting Acceptance Rules For Radicals Sudden Death

Author:Saul Alinsky

“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.”

Firsts Two Given Accepting Watches Acceptance Journalist Interviews Cash Explaining First Lady Nancy

Author:Richard V. Allen

“The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.”

Heaven Accepting Acceptance Guides Ships Dependence Rudders

Book:The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

“How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.”

Men Able Wish Powerful Accepting Acceptance

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“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.”

Life Philosophy Accepting Acceptance There Comes A Time Accepting Yourself Fulcrum

Book:The Magus

Source: The Magus

“History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.”

Leadership Accepting Acceptance Difficulty Historical Excuse

Author:John F. Kennedy

“To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.”

World Enough Purpose Challenges Freedom Accepting Acceptance Praying Intellectual Historical Oppressed

Author:James H. Cone

“Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.”

Life Accepting Acceptance Depends Limits

Author:James A. Baldwin

“No teacher should be required to accept in a class any individual whose conduct habitually interferes with the teaching of others.”

Should Individual Accepting Class Teacher Teaching Acceptance Interfere

Author:Jack H. Adamson

“If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen.”

Ifs Should Long Country Happens Dies Space Business Accepting Risk Acceptance Program Valuable Disaster Mourn Space Program Risky Business

Author:Gus Grissom

“The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.”

Accepting Acceptance Civilization Defeat British Factors Inevitable Refusal Salvage

Author:George C. Marshall

“If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing.”

Ifs Feelings Pay Accepting Acceptance Defeat Stealing Guilty Envelopes Feeling Guilty

Book:What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports

Source: What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports

“When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.”

People Government Political Responsibility Liberty Accepting Acceptance Libertarian Self Acceptance Taking Responsibility Prohibition Election Day

Author:George Pataki

“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 immorality.”

World Ideas Use Used Accepting Acceptance Weapons Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Monstrous

Author:Linus Pauling

“Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.”

Political Politics Acceptance Accepted Proposal Controversial

Book:Real and Imagined Handicaps of Our Democracy in the Conduct of Its Foreign Relations: An Address, the Harry S. Truman Library, Institute for National and International Affairs

Source: Real and Imagined Handicaps of Our Democracy in the Conduct of Its Foreign Relations: An Address, the Harry S. Truman Library, Institute for National and International Affairs

“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”

War Nations Party Accepting Acceptance Survival Civil War American Civil War Inaugural Inaugural Address

Author:Abraham Lincoln