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“It makes utter sense to stay healthy and strong, to be as nourishing to the body as possible. Yet I would have to agree, there is in many women a 'hungry' one inside. But rather than hungry to be a certain size, shape, or height, rather than hungry to fit the stereotype; women are hungry for basic regard from the culture surrounding them. The 'hungry' one inside is longing to be treated respectfully, to be accepted and in the very least, to be met without stereotyping.”

Body Certain Culture Strong Healing Fit Healthy Mets Shapes Regard Agree Longing Size Accepted Hungry Treated Height Teens Stereotype

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.”

Heart Important Reason Pain Sin Virtue Love You My Heart Highest Understood Accepted I Realized Burning Reasoning Unhappiness Unnecessary Petty Deceptive

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted”

Mind Soul Loses Intellectual Accepted Insane

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.”

Way Reality Hurt Memories Becoming Independent Accepted Resent Evoke Tehran Deeply Hurt Becoming Independent

Author:Azar Nafisi

“We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire to revere and envy others we imagine to be better, more accepted, and more popular than we are. The only problem is that the most necessary qualities required to be a celebrity -- self-absorption, egomania, shamelessness -- are the least attractive in a friend.”

Want Ideas Self Problem Desire Stars Quality Imagine Envy Accepted Attractive Dna Envied Absorption Self Absorption Egomania

Author:Tonya Hurley

“There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.”

Knows Reality Might Eye Lying Reflection Shadow Mirrors Appearance Accepted Circles Dimensions

Book:The Walking Drum

Source: The Walking Drum

“Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. "I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. "Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc. "No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe.”

Thinking Moments Bigs Lines White Rooms Break Ought Honor Down And Accepted Passing Passings Sat Nuts Guests Toes Lumps Containing Peppers Discs Alligators Chalk

Book:Things Fall Apart

Source: Things Fall Apart

“There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.”

People Natural Secret Accepted Priests Chasing Occult

Book:Brida: A Novel

Source: Brida: A Novel

“You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.”

Given Knowing Masters Source Conviction Ugly Accepted Mysterious Ugliness Cloaks

Book:The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?" "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?" "I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled.”

“Forget your pain. It was what I said when I took Father's hand in the drawing room yesterday, what I repeated again tonight. But I didn't mean this. I must be careful. Yet what bothers me isn't the power of the magic or how, to a person, they've all accepted it as truth. No, what unsettles me the most is how much I want to believe it too.”

Want Believe Mean Persons Said Hands Pain Father Forget Rooms Magic Careful Drawing Accepted Yesterday Bother Tonight Be Careful

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy.”

Thinking Way Doe Easy Practice Seeing Type Criticism Harder Notion Accepted Familiar Assumption Way Of Thinking Critique

Author:Michel Foucault

“What do you know about life? " Bitterness ached in her throat. " You were born with everything. You never had to struggle for a single thing you wanted, never had to worry if you'd be accepted or loved or wanted back." He stared at her, grateful for the moment that she couldn't see that he'd spent nearly half of his life worrying that she, the single thing he wanted, would accept him, love him, and want him back.”

Ifs Knows Want Moments Wanted Born Half Accepting Worry Struggle Grateful Accepted Do You Know Bitterness Throat Want Him

Book:Daring to Dream

Source: Daring to Dream

“There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my wanderings to the living heart of the world. Sadly and yet deeply moved, I set myself to recall the last of these experiences. It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two of three notes of the piano the door was opened of a sudden to the other world. I sped through heaven and saw God at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.”

“The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.”

Has Beens Certain Lines Behavior Dues Accepted Manners Decline Desirable Rapids Courtesy Private Life Public Life

Book:Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

Source: Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

“In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.”

People Culture Western Accepted Ghost Eastern Western Culture

Author:Jessica Alba

“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.”

Want Kind Persons Ideas Hard Wanted Left Space Interesting Drink Ideals Accepted Lazy Nothingness Wrong Things Left Alone Hazy

Book:Women

Source: Women

“When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.”

Humans Natural Accepted Disillusionment

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.”

“We all belong here equally...Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don't have to accomplish anything. We don't even have to be healthy.”

Earth Born Support Healthy Accomplish Accepted

Author:Polly Horvath

“My guard will run you through if he catches you looking at my face," said Arianna. "I don't think so. I think it might be treason to kill a duke," said Luciano. "But you're not a duke," said Arianna. "I will be if you marry me," said Luciano. "Yes, you would be," said Arianna. "Would?" "If you are asking me." "I'm asking." "And if I accepted." "Do you?" "I do. With all my heart.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Said Might Would Be Running Faces My Heart Asking Accepted Treason Dukes Marry Me

Author:Mary Hoffman

“I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again; it might sound silly but I didn't believe it, would not believe it.”

Way Believe Mean Might Mother Father Sound Dog Missing Brother Accepted Silly Holiday My Sister Brothers And Sisters Solace Mother And Father

Author:Alice Sebold

“Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die.”

Needs Dies Accepted Thrive Sooner Or Later

Book:Winter's Child

Source: Winter's Child

“the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humour. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and a third – before long the best lines cancel out – and the secret is exposed at last; the planes of the pictures have intermingled and given us away, and though we paint and paint we can no longer sell a picture. We must be satisfied with hoping that such fatuous accounts of ourselves as we make to our wives and children and business associates are accepted as true”

Source: Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi

“Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She’s never coming home." A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.”

Said Home Lasts Night Father Easy Known Clear Pieces Needed Accepted Coming Home Last Night

Author:Alice Sebold

“You possess other people's...bodies." He accepted that statement with a nod. "Do you want to possess my body?" "I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that's not one of them.”

People Want Body Your Body Accepted Statements Hush Patch Cipriano Patch And Nora Hush Hush

Author:Becca Fitzpatrick

“I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.”

World Heart Pain Heaven Saws My Heart Holy All Things Defense Accepted Gave Up Sped

Book:Steppenwolf

Source: Steppenwolf

“When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by the tripping of a camera's shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest.”

Stills Moments Helping Hurt Wonder Honest Sweet Cameras Accepted Innocent Shutters Moments Of Life Brief Moments Tripping

Book:Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were only waiting for us to find our way to them at last, just as when we have accepted an invitation we duly arrive in a certain house at a given time.”

Ifs Way Moments Seems Lasts Certain House Given Waiting Space Our Lives Events Accepted Invitations Future Events

Book:Austerlitz

Source: Austerlitz

“Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.”

Way Should War Politics Responsibility Power Our Lives Mankind Should Have Accepted Dawn Camps Handful Doing Nothing Oppressors Slaughterhouses Vendetta

Author:Alan Moore

“Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.”

Heart Compassion Knowing Security Divine Essence Accepted Scripture Defined Tenderness Sincerely Divine Nature

Book:Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

“wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week early and wearing a white skirt. i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashes and clots like you wouldn't believe. let the flashes come when they meet someone special. let the clots come when they want to. let them think they have accepted arrogance in the universe, then bring them to gynecologists not unlike themselves.”

Source: Quilting: poems, 1987-1990

“Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared”

Source: Casino Royale

“Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.”

Love Made Enough Facts Would Be Age Suffering Saws Honest One Day Luck Accepted Mood Cards Knees Pursued Casino Royale

Author:Ian Fleming

“The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.”

Ifs Giving May Mean Art Ends Reason Pleasure Subjects Produce Music Is Understood All Things Including Proof Accepted Formulas Rejected Comprehensive If Then

Book:Utilitarianism: Mill's Works

Source: Utilitarianism: Mill's Works

“The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime and the violence and the little shocks of good that crawled out from underneath the everyday.”

Way Littles Cities Violence Crime Building Bigger Everyday Accepted Shock Nuance

Book:Let The Great World Spin

Source: Let The Great World Spin

“The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.”

People May Mean Desire Numbers Type Needed Succeed Abuse Majority Active Accepted Abuse Of Power Precaution Tyranny Of The Majority

Author:John Stuart Mill

“it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions, like a wild thing glimpsed through trees.”

Knows Courses Responsibility Tree Conditions Subjects Objects Accepted Wild Things

Book:What I Was

Source: What I Was

“Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university levels, it is accepted that the 'Noli me Tangere' and 'El Filibusterismo' are highly regarded but seldom read (if not totally ignored). Therefore one asks, how can unread novels exert any influence?”

People Ifs Today Courses Reading Asks Levels Novel Influence University Accepted Despite Ignored Filipino Compulsory Noli Me Tangere

Author:Ambeth R. Ocampo

“Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.”

Matter Disease Concepts Addiction Alcohol Accepted Treated Recovery Alcoholism Drug Addiction Alcohol Addiction

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Eyes watching always Shadows in shadows they wait A black feather falls First accepted, loved Then betrayed-spit in the face Vengeance sweet like dots.”

Firsts Eye Faces Fall Waiting Black Sweet Shadow Accepted Betrayed Vengeance Feathers Spit Dots Eyes Watching

Book:Hunted: A House of Night Novel

Source: Hunted: A House of Night Novel

“Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”

Art Reason Accepted Mood Spite Holding On

Book:The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

“Sh!t. F_ck sh!t.'.... 'Sh!t f_ck would have also been accepted.”

Accepted

Author:Ilona Andrews

“She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.”

Looks Book Wanted Accepted

Book:The Sugar Queen

Source: The Sugar Queen

“Madame Lefoux accepted a cup of tea and sat on another little settee, next to the relocated calico cat. The cat clearly believed Madame Lefoux was there to provide chin scratches. Madame Lefoux provided.”

Littles Next Cat Accepted Cups Tea Sat Scratches Chins Cups Of Tea

Author:Gail Carriger

“How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, "Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?" To which the man responded, "That's your worry.”

Men Trying Years Firsts Persons Might Jobs Found Deals Worry Anxiety Decided Fellows Accepted Worried Boss Salary

Book:Traveling Light: Premier Library Edition

Source: Traveling Light: Premier Library Edition

“I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.”

Ifs Trying Believe May Facts Romance I Believe Forget Married Essence Accepted Uncertainty Excitement Definite Earnest Proposal Very Romantic Importance Of Being Earnest

Book:The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings

Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings

“Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving.”

Giving Mean Doe Accepted

Author:F. Sionil José

“GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning the table manners of others is rude. But to overthrow the accepted conventions of society, on the flimsy grounds that you have found them silly, inefficient and discomforting, is a dangerous step toward destroying civilization.”

Source: Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

“Beatrix puts a distance between herself and the rest of the world. She’s very engaging, but also quite private in nature. I see the same qualities in Captain Phelan.” “Yes,” Amelia said. “You’re absolutely right, Catherine. Put that way, the match does seem more appropriate.” “I still have reservations,” Leo said. “You always do,” Amelia replied. “If you’ll recall, you objected to Cam in the beginning, but now you’ve accepted him.” “That’s because the more brothers-in-law I acquire,” Leo said, “the better Cam looks by comparison.”

Ifs World Way Looks Doe Said Stills Seems Law Quality Brother Distance Accepted Acquire Appropriate Comparison Recalls Captains Engaging In-laws Reservations Amelia Brother In Law

Book:Love in the Afternoon

Source: Love in the Afternoon

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