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“I prefer to make no new declarations [on southern policy beyond what was in the Letter of Acceptance]. But you may say, if you deem it advisable, that you know that I will stand by the friendly and encouraging words of that Letter, and by all that they imply. You cannot express that too strongly.”

Author:Ellyn Stern

“We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, 'Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith.' We can decide to risk that He is indeed there, watching, caring, cherishing us as we love and accept love. The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance.”

World Littles Stills Play Asks Answers Accepting Risk Acceptance Angel Caring Cherish Have Faith Reach Out Better Place Stirring

Author:Joan Anderson

“... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.”

“The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation.”

Way Lying Situation Acceptance

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.”

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

Men Black Acceptance Racism Notion Assumption Masculinity Black Women

Book:Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

“Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.”

Acceptance Discovery Uncertain

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“By seeing a same-sex couple in ordinary situations, that it might make people think twice about if they have, you know, questions about acceptance of LGBT equality, it's one way to just say that, you know, 'We're members of your family and gay people are like anybody else.'”

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Author:George Takei

“One thing I want to clarify - that every service member, veteran, wants us to remember - is that the vast majority of people returning from service come back completely healthy. But when we do come across someone who is struggling. We have to develop a culture of open arms and acceptance so that they feel comfortable saying, "I'm a veteran. And by the way, I need little help." This is something we need to do in this country around mental health as a whole - destigmatizing mental health.”

“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.”

Humans Made Self Realizing Acceptance Conscious Prison Approval Self Made

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.”

World Way Firsts My Own Acceptance Creating Newspapers Nine Selling Recognition Comic Peers Pennies My Own World

Author:Hugh Hefner

“Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative. Our goal is nonjudgment, nonfiltered acceptance of everything. So much of our background collectively, especially in the United States, is denying and suppressing and disowning a lot of negativity and the darker areas. You can become swallowed up in it. It's cancerous. The goal should be to define acceptance for everything. To try and consider every aspect. To try to look into the shadows, as well as the light.”

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Author:Maynard James Keenan

“Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.”

Faith Belief Causes Conditions Acceptance Ruins Programmes

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind.”

Mean God Mankind Acceptance Brotherhood Faith In God

Book:Gandhigrams

Source: Gandhigrams

“All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.”

Humans Two Religion Force Teach Acceptance Eternal Opposites Series Rejection Endeavour Two Opposites

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.”

Mean Law Acceptance Discipline Independence Restraint Rule Of Law

Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words

“It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.”

Values Acceptance Everyday Contentment Commonplace

Author:Richard J. Foster

“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.”

“Action arising out of suffering is contaminated with suffering and causes further suffering, and that is karma. Action that arises out of a state of "acceptance" is totally free of karma. And there is a vast difference.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I get scripts all the time, but I read this [Baggage Claim] thoroughly, and I loved it. It was light hearted, cute, sweet, and funny. I told my agent that I liked the script, but I did let my acceptance of the role slide a little, until I was watching television one day; scrolling through the stations, and there was this play. And I don't like plays made for the screen. But, this one, "Suddenly Single", caught my attention.”

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Author:Jill Scott

“I think any film that asks its audience a degree of tolerance and acceptance of those less fortunate than themselves isn't a bad thing from whatever culture you're in or from whatever part of any political spectrum.”

Thinking Film Political Culture Asks Audience Acceptance Degrees Tolerance Fortunate Bad Things Spectrum Less Fortunate Political Spectrum Those Less Fortunate

Author:Hugh Bonneville

“In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb that makes Israel secure.”

Long Country Term Security Acceptance Israel Secure Long Term Bombs Atoms Palestinian Pillars Atom Bomb

Author:Daniel Barenboim

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”

“Throughout history, humankind has been resistant to change and to the acceptance of new ideas... When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter, the astronomers of that time refused to accept or even to look at these satellites because the existence of these moons conflicted with their accepted beliefs. So it is now with psychiatrists and other therapists, who refuse to examine and evaluate the considerable evidence being gathered about survival after bodily death and about past life memories. Their eyes are tightly shut.”

“I never say never to anything. I don't really think it would be for me, but I never put limitations on myself. Part of getting older is acceptance, though, so I'd like to think I'll age gracefully. But if other women get confi dence from having surgery, then I would never judge.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Age Acceptance Judging Limitation Surgery Getting Old Getting Older Never Say Never

Author:Donna Air

“I do a lot of reading on Buddhist philosophy, and a Buddhist nun named Pema Chödrön talks a lot about acceptance. It's one of the main tenets of Buddhism - accepting that what is, is. The root of our suffering is when we just don't want to accept a truth. We want something to be different than it is.”

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Author:Sara Bareilles

“In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read by some fundamentalist searching for straws to prop up his prejudices, let me state categorically that all my experience (such as it is) has led me to an unqualified acceptance of evolution by natural selection as a sufficient explanation for what I have seen in the fossil record.”

“We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.”

Acceptance Expectations

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.”

Pay Impossible Acceptance Despair Aim Setting Settings Unforgivable Unforgivable Sin

Author:Graham Greene

“Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding.These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found. ... Words such as dimension and field and infinity ... are not descriptions of reality, yet we accept them as such because everyone is sure someone else knows what the words mean.”

Knows Mean Real Reality Science Found Understanding Accepting Fields Acceptance Scientist Holes Dimensions Description Infinity Convenience Nomenclature

Author:Scott Adams

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

Ifs Looks Path Worst Acceptance Anarchy

Author:Thomas Hardy

“The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as Americans. The time is come - it is now - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government.”

“And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.”

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Author:Kevin Barry

“If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no inclination to change employments.”

Ifs Feels Two Heaven Streets Acceptance Angel Employment Empires Inclination

Author:John Newton

“From a place of stillness, openness, forgiveness and acceptance you can renew your commitment to any eating plan you like.”

Plans Acceptance Eating Commitment Openness Stillness

Author:Martha Beck

“To care for someone can mean to adore them, feed them, tend their wounds. But care can also signify sorrow, as in "bowed down by cares." Or anxiety, as in "Careful!" Or investment in an outcome, as in "Who cares?" The word love has no such range of meaning: It's pure acceptance.”

Mean Care Acceptance Sorrow Pure Anxiety Investment Careful Wounds Range Outcomes Adore Who Cares Words Love

Author:Martha Beck

“Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human -- and by that I mean imperfect -- beings.”

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Author:Martha Beck

“That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”

“Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.”

Has Beens Self Age Middle Acceptance Products Blessed Self Acceptance Middle Ages

Author:Candice Bergen

“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.”

People Thinking Trying Acceptance Normal Shining Threat Worthy Minorities Homosexuality Fringe Spotlight

Author:Ryan Murphy

“When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.”

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”

Ifs Inspirational Self Acceptance Positive Discipline Smart Conquer Self Control Self Discipline Mind Control Think And Grow Rich Think Rich Grow Rich Power And Control Self Power Discipline And Self Control Daily Discipline Controlling Power

Book:Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...

Source: Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...

“Acceptance doesn't mean predictability. Sex isn't always for 11 at night - - it's also 'meet at a hotel room at noon'. What you feel during dating can exist at home, if you don't suffocate it.”

Ifs Feels Mean Home Night Sex Rooms Acceptance Dating Hotel Noon Hotel Rooms Predictability

Author:Esther Perel

“I don't know anything about god except that it's not me. So, somewhere between that acceptance and doing my homework and being competitive and having ambition and loving my job and observing and reflecting my society, that's where I find the purpose. Because man needs purpose.”

Knows Men Needs Jobs Purpose Acceptance Ambition Observing Reflecting Homework

Author:Tom Hardy

“Most comedians want to be the architect of their own embarrassment. They have horrible self-esteem issues. I would rather push myself into the mud. I don't want to be pushed into the mud. I think that is probably true. I think most people struggle with self-acceptance. But comedians get a chance to self externalize.”

People Thinking Want Self Chance Struggle Issues Self Esteem Acceptance Horrible Esteem Comedian Self Acceptance Architect Mud Embarrassment Self Esteem Issues

Author:Mike Myers

“I think in our lifetime, that level of acceptance of "well, we couldn't do any better," won't be tolerated. We're going to start to see individual therapies customized for individual patients, and it's going to change the way people get healthcare.”

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Author:Dean Kamen

“The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life.”

Important Running Pain Ability Effort Quality Influence Acceptance Capacity Extremes Factors Fatigue Will Power

Author:Jim Fixx

“Relaxation, acceptance, and keeping open mind are key. First of all, peak performance isn't possible if one is not relaxed, and if one is going to stay relaxed they must simply accept problems when they arise and decide to solve them. If I can't do a move I merely accept that I haven't discovered the right sequence, instead of trying the same sequence over and over or just quitting. I will try to do it 20 or 30 different ways, making subtle changes in body position and fot placement, until I find something that does work. That's what I mean by keeping an open mind.”

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