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“My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body.”

Thinking Whole Body Acceptance My Favorite Body Image My Smile Body Confidence

“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.”

“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

“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

“Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. When we don't have that, we shape-shift and turn into chameleons; we hustle for the worthiness we already possess.”

Thinking Giving Believe Self Enough Facts Turns Levels Greater Acceptance Positive Thinking Shapes Vulnerable Belonging Self Acceptance Imperfect Hustle Worthiness Chameleon

Author:Brené Brown

“Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.”

Thinking Giving Persons Art Feelings Forget Accepting Acceptance Harder Bother Allowing Gracious Accepting Things

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“Like so much of what is worthwhile in life, our needs for friendship are often best met in the home. If our children feel friendship within the family, with each other, and with parents, they will not be desperate for acceptance outside the family. I think one of life’s most satisfying accomplishments for my wife and me is to have lived long enough to see our children become good friends.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Children Long Enough Home Parent Wife Acceptance Mets Our Children My Wife Accomplishment Desperate Satisfying Worthwhile Good Friend

Author:Marlin K. Jensen

“Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.”

People Thinking Want Feels Firsts Order Interesting Levels Failing Achieve Acceptance Gains Technique Appropriate Get Real Really Interesting

Author:Rupert Friend

“I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.”

Thinking Actors Fun Acceptance Speech Showers Acceptance Speech

Author:Jared Harris

“These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.”

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Go your own way. Question everything. Accept nothing. Accept no dogma, no cant. There are too many people walking around thinking they're sacred cows, and they're only half right.”

People Thinking Way Half Accepting Acceptance Walking Sacred Cows Dogma Sacred Cows

Author:Rosie DiManno

“If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.”

Ifs Thinking Body Women Business Beauty Acceptance Industry Tomorrow Standards Decided Wake Up Body Image Being Beautiful

Author:Gail Dines

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

Thinking Should Reality Happened Acceptance Should Have Willingness Get Over

Author:Rhonda Britten

“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.”

Thinking Trying Looks Different Self Happiness Moving Grows Parent Acceptance Comfortable Self Discovery Who We Are Different Things Self Acceptance Acceptance And Change

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life-that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don't think there's going to be any violent revolution about the whole thing anywhere. Of course, it looks like it every once in a while. You hear about it on television and in newspapers: riots here and there. But that is a passing phase.”

Source: Conversations with Erskine Caldwell

“See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea that you are nameable and describable. You are not. Refuse to think of this or that. There is no other way out of misery, which you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation. Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation. Don't be lazy to think.”

Thinking Way Needs Believe Ideas Pain Suffering Fighting Acceptance Blind Misery Refuse Believe In Yourself Lazy Investigation Inquiry Blind Acceptance

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Accept Him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need Him?”

Thinking Needs Jesus Accepting Acceptance

Book:Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

Source: Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

“If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.”

Ifs Thinking Crazy Acceptance Republican Favors Voters Contracts Entitled American Voters

Author:Malcolm Wallop

“I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.”

“We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight. We must discard the idea that past routine, past ways of doing things, are probably the best ways. On the contrary, we must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.”

“I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South was the true course; and I think so still. Controversy of all kinds will, in my opinion, only serve to continue excitement and passion, and will prevent the public mind from the acknowledgement and acceptance of the truth.”

Thinking Mind Kind Stills War Passion Courses Silence Opinion Acceptance South All Kinds Excitement Civil War Controversy Hostility Acknowledgement

Book:Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee

Source: Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee

“...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.”

Thinking Men May Feelings Happens Earth Born Liberty Accepting Acceptance Creatures Slavery Servitude

Book:Oppression and Liberty

Source: Oppression and Liberty

“I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.”

Thinking Moments Acceptance Rejection Shells Cracked

Book:The Secret Lives of People in Love

Source: The Secret Lives of People in Love

“Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.”

Thinking Needs Doe Might Acceptance Rejection

Book:The Common Sense of Science

Source: The Common Sense of Science

“Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface his origins, the marks of which he carries with him everywhere. I think it is important to know this and even find it a matter for rejoicing, as the strongest people do, regardless of their station. On this acceptance, literally, the life of a writer depends.”

People Thinking Knows May Important Matter Born Groups Acceptance Depends Mark Carrie Stations Strongest Rejoice Origin Of Life Maverick Incorrigible

Author:James A. Baldwin

“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”

Thinking Knows Long Able Lasts Acceptance Long Time Endurance

Author:Sam Cooke

“I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.”

Thinking Feels Children Helping Home School Class Wonderful Acceptance Ego Feel Good Cooks Wonderful Things Children Learning Building Confidence

Author:Giada De Laurentiis

“Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.”

Thinking Heart Accepting Alive Acceptance Good Things Very Good

Book:Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them

Source: Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them

“We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as we think they should; otherwise we get agitated. But we are here to accept the world as it is, even as we work to make it better.”

“I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning acceptance. . . . As a playwright, what I object to right now is any form of fundamentalism, whether it's nationalistic, religious or ethnic. . . . I think it is ridiculous - and fundamentalist, by the way - to say that I am not changed by the culture around me.”

“Suddenly contemporary Christianity sales pitches don't seem adequate anymore. Ask Jesus to come into your heart. Invite Jesus to come into your life. Pray this prayer, sign this card, walk down this aisle, and accept Jesus as your personal Savior. . . We have taken the infinitely glorious Son of God, who endured the infinitely terrible wrath of God and who now reigns as the infinitely worthy Lord of all, and we have reduced him to a poor, puny Savior who is just begging for us to accept him. Accept him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need him?”

“Happiness is only available with total acceptance of who you are, including all your fears, worries, and anxiety. It will be there for you when you can see your own inner beauty. You cannot achieve happiness without using your past, your flaws, insecurities, and imperfections in a positive way. It is about letting go and detaching from unhealthy people, ideas, and lifestyle choices, and replacing them with interdependent, pro-active ways of thinking and responding.”

“I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.”

Thinking Knows Long Has Beens Whole Used Wish Know How Identity Acceptance Granted Establishment Petitions

Author:Toby Young

“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.”

People Thinking Self Acceptance Self Improvement Strive Improvement Approval Earning Perfectionism Be Your Best

Author:Brené Brown

“I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.”

People Thinking Writing Kind Persons Effects Acceptance Happenings Edges Revelations Terrified Never Quit Infatuated

Author:Anne Carson

“I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.”

Thinking Important Remember Christianity Acceptance Tolerance

Author:Kristin Chenoweth

“I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Years Humans Matter Young Groups Dangerous Acceptance Honor Young Man Survived Human Society Small Groups

Author:Sebastian Junger

“We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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