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“It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didn’t burst from lamps, and talking fish didn’t bargain for their lives. In all the world, there was only one place humans could get wishes: Brimstone’s shop. And there was only one currency he accepted. It wasn’t gold, or riddles, or kindness, or any other fairy-tale nonsense, and no, it wasn’t souls, either. It was weirder than any of that. It was teeth.”

World Humans Soul Wish Waiting Talking Kindness Gold Rewards Fishes Accepted Tales Teeth Bread Fairy Shops Nonsense Witch Fairy Tale Currency Traveler Lamps Bargains Riddle Crossroads Genies

Author:Laini Taylor

“Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.”

Ifs Years Whole Wanted Lasts Courses Numbers Childhood Years Ago Foundation Accepted I Realized Stable Falsehood Large Numbers Doubtful Edifice Demolish

Author:Rene Descartes

“How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over the world staring at beds that are no longer slept in, shoes that are no longer worn. Families that no longer have to buy a particular cereal, a kind of shampoo. There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds. For years. For their whole lives. I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?”

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?”

People Way Should Humans Facts Hands Form Desire Human Beings Pleasure Quality Accepting Wonder Particular Adventure Mets Unique Instinct Accepted Clock Behave Collectives Keyboards

Author:Paulo Coelho

“He hasn't accepted his death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me bread, is fighting hard to kill me.”

Kind Mean Hard Fighting Boys Alive Accepted Bread Kill Me Staying Alive Peeta Fighting Hard

Book:The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating. She has come with a buket. He sent her back with a spring of living water. She had come as a reject. He sent her back being accepted by God Himself. She came wounded. He sent her back whole. She came laden with questions. He sent her back as a source for answers. She came living a life of quiet desperation. She ran back overflowing with hope. The disciples missed it all. It was lunchtime for them.”

“Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.”

People Thinking Form Certain Faith Belief Religious Situation Modern Planets Accepted Ideology Peculiar Secular Religious Faith Self Consciousness

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“When I was growing up, I didn't really know much about being popular or cliques or anything like that. In elementary school and middle school, you start to kind of realize what it's all about. There are cool kids, and then there's you, and you're just trying to figure out where you fit in.I learned a lot about acceptance and rejection,Those are the themes that you'll find spread throughout my music and weaved in throughout all of the lyrics. I really know what it's like to be accepted, and I also know what it's like to be rejected. And those are lessons I learned in Wyomissing.”

“The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.”

Powerful Serious Safe Demand Accepted Signals

Book:The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

Source: The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

“Her little fists pummeled at him, and he accepted the abuse. Until he realized she’d made an improper fist and was actually hurting herself. He wound an arm around her waist, spun her and slammed her into the hard line of his body to still her. “Let me go!” “In a minute.” As she struggled, he pulled her thumb out from beneath her fingers and rearranged her fist. “Hit like this.” Done, he released her.”

Littles Made Stills Hard Done Body Hurt Lines Minutes Arms Let Me Abuse Fingers Accepted Wounds Fists Thumbs Spun Let Me Go

Book:The Darkest Seduction

Source: The Darkest Seduction

“Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this time the fear will be put to shame and a modest 10 percent frail awareness of the possibility of love. I don't fall in love any more. Just like I don't get the mumps.”

Has Beens Fall Awareness Possibility Percent Shame Falling In Love Accepted Modest Overrated Frail Manic Being Accepted Don't Fall In Love

Author:Peter Høeg

“Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard to regret the blood with which its fangs are moistened,—as soon might you expect the lion of the wood to abjure his cruel tyranny over the feeble beasts of the plain, as expect the sinner to make any confession, or offer any repentance that shall be accepted of God, unless grace shall first renew the heart.”

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347

“She couldn't "heal" him. No woman could. Events that far in the past just couldn't be undone. But perhaps he didn't need a cure, but . . . a lens. Someone who accepted him for the imperfect person he was, and then helped him to see the world clear. Like spectacles did for her.”

World Needs Persons Past Clear Events Accepted Heal Cures Imperfect Lenses Undone Spectacles Imperfect Person

Author:Tessa Dare

“Any drug can be used successfully, no matter how bad it's reputation, and any drug can be abused, no matter how accepted it is. There are no good or bad rugs; there are only good and bad relationships with drugs.”

Matter Used Drug Accepted Reputation Good And Bad Bad Relationship

Author:Andrew Weil

“How do you know it won't be duels at dawn when you tell him you've accepted my proposal of marriage?" "Don't be ridiculous. He's not that hotheaded. Though I daresay he may try to...er...knock some sense into you. He and Jarret. And possibly Gabe." "Our bargain is looking better and better all the time," he said drily. "I get to fight the Sharpe men while you stand around pretending to care." He came close enough to whisper, "I will definitely require a few kisses of you if that comes to pass, minx." -Giles and Minerva”

Ifs Knows Men Trying May Said Enough Care Fighting Kissing Accepted Ridiculous Dawn Do You Know Pretending Proposal Bargains Minerva Minx

Author:Sabrina Jeffries

“Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble.”

Hard Reason Enough Beautiful Realizing Known Trouble Willing Needed And Love Tired Accepted Beautiful Women Let It Go Places To Go Wrong Reasons Holding Back Back Love

Author:Charles Bukowski

“How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.”

Ifs Seems Social Hours Strange Excuse Accepted Engagement Shopping Rude Appointments Egotistical Inexplicable Expeditions Hairdresser

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“....called to give you the good news. I asked our daughter to marry me and she accepted. Congratulations, I will officially your son-in-law. Now, do you want me to call you zmum straightaway, or wait until after the wedding?" I lew through the ir in a dive tht finally tackled him, wrenching the phone away. Bones was laughing so hard he had to breathe to get it all out. "Mom? Are you there? Mom.....?" "You might want to give her a moment, Kitten. I believe she fainted.”

“I have accepted myself in a world that does not accept me, because I have learned - and more than any of the lessons of my accident, this is the one I wish I could teach everybody - that our hearts matter most. Your heart matters most, so be gentler and more patient with yourself, and their hearts matter most, too, so be kinder and more compassionate to others. It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.”

World Heart Doe Matter Body Beautiful Wish Perfect Accepting Teach Lessons Patient Accidents Accepted Compassionate I Have Learned Beautiful Life Kinder Accept Me Beautiful Heart

Author:Stephanie Nielson

“She didn’t judge him or hate him for things that weren’t his fault. She accepted him and that was the greatest miracle of all.”

Hate Judging Miracle Faults Accepted Hate Him

Book:The Dark-Hunters (The Collection Thus Far)

Source: The Dark-Hunters (The Collection Thus Far)

“I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.”

Evil Accepted Not Sure

Book:Identical

Source: Identical

“This was why I loved my Grana. Being with her always made me laugh. She accepted life for what it was. She didn’t pretend or put on airs. She was just Grana.”

Made Laughing Air Accepted

Book:The Vincent Boys

Source: The Vincent Boys

“It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.”

Beautiful Accepted Attractive

Author:Marc Jacobs

“[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.”

Men Humans Ideas Certain Honor Madness Mad Accepted Superiors Madmen Asylums Forfeit Nastiness Misunderstood Genius

Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“It's very advanced of you to have accepted my mortality so fatalistically.”

Accepted Mortality

Book:City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.”

“But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make worlds that never were, populate them with people who never existed, and then invite us to join them in their fantasies. And we do it, don't we? Yes. We PAY to do it.”

People World Artist Actors Pay Fantasy Accepted Ghost Mediums Our Society Invites

Book:The Dark Half

Source: The Dark Half

“There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man is ugly,' Kainene said. There was a small smile on her face and then she was laughing, and Olanna could not help but laugh too, because it was not what she had wanted to hear and because hearing it had made her feel better.”

Men Way Feels Long Made Said Helping Wanted Faces Laughing Ugly Hearing Accepted Lazy Criticize Feel Better

Book:Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside? Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.”

People Persons Feelings Voice Happened Silent Raised Rage Accepted Spokes Chasms Offending Being Accepted

Author:Louise Penny

“I know, now, without a doubt that the true source of happiness, self-worth, and authentic beauty doesn't come from the outside. Women are constantly being persuaded to want something unachievable, to look younger or thinner and above all to fit in because being different is too painful and embarassing. I have accepted myself in a world that does not accept me, because I have learned [ . . . ] that our hearts matter most... It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.”

“The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.”

Way Careful Accepted Haunting Afar

Author:Ann Brashares

“You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.”

Two Ideas School Taught Accepted Instance Geometry Misconception Follow Me

Book:The Works of Wells

Source: The Works of Wells

“Grief was like a terrible burden, but at least you could lay it down by the side of the road and walk away from it. Antonia had come only a few paces, but already she could turn and look back and not weep. It wasn't anything to do with forgetting. It was just accepting. Nothing was ever so bad once you had accepted it.”

Looks Turns Sides Walks Forget Grief Accepting Terrible Lays Burden Accepted Pace Antonia

Book:The Shell Seekers

Source: The Shell Seekers

“Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the ending seemed indisputable, definitive. No questions asked about how long love or happiness lasts in that 'forever' that can be divided into lifetimes, years, months. Even days”

Years Long Lasts Lying Forever Months Hero Universal Lifetime Accepted Absurd Divided Happy Endings Happily Ever After Ever After Heroines Questions Asked Long Love Heroes And Heroines

Book:The Club Dumas

Source: The Club Dumas

“Opportunities and choices. When a person makes a heart wish, that wish resonates through the currents and things will happen to give the person an opportunity to make the wish come true. Like a hand offered and accepted.”

Giving Heart Persons Hands Happens Choices Opportunity Wish Currents Accepted Wishes Come True

Author:Anne Bishop

“They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!”

Important Individual Personality Accepted Entity

Author:Beatrice Sparks

“Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him.”

“When I was young, some women told me they loved me for my long eyelashes. I accepted. Later it was for my wit. Then for my power and money. Then for my talent. Then for my mind-deep. OK, I can handle all of it. The only woman who scares me is the one who loves me for myself alone. I have plans for her. I have poisons and daggers and dark graves in caves to hide her head. She can't be allowed to live. Especially if she's sexually faithful and never lies and always puts me ahead of everything and everyone.”

Ifs Mind Long I Can Young Lying Dark Plans Talent Accepted Wit Graves Handle Faithful Poison Scare Caves Sexually Daggers Eyelashes Never Lie

Author:Mario Puzo

“No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.”

People Stills Lost Animal Silence Lessons Accepted Civilized Stillness Aptitude Wild Animal

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.”

Play Pleasure Morning Sun Air Sea Sweet Forgotten Accepted

Book:Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

“Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.”

People Thinking Should Christian Christ Leader Couple Hero Essence Impact Lifetime Profound Accepted Savior Crusades Atlanta Christian Leaders

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Now, when their glances met, they understood one another. The power that lay within both their souls had met, and, as it were, clasped hands. They accepted one another's sacrifice. Hers, mayhap, was the more complete of the two, because for her his absence would mean weary waiting, the dull heartache so terrible to bear.”

Mean Two Soul Hands Waiting Sacrifice Bears Terrible Mets Understood Lays Absence Accepted Heartache Dull Weary Glances

Book:The First Sir Percy

Source: The First Sir Percy

“I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My on going struggle against the Capitol, which has so often felt like a solitary journey, has not been undertaken alone. I have had thousands upon thousands of people from the districts at my side. I was their Mockingjay long before I accepted the role.”

People Mean Long Felt Sides Roles Struggle Gone Journey Protect Accepted Length Rebel Solitary Capitol Mockingjay

Book:Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.”

Should Trying Stories Might Jobs Certain Forget Moral Wings Accepted Feathers Better Jobs Icarus

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.”

Believe Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Accepted Flawed

Book:The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

“As the lightness buoys me, I wonder if maybe she was right. Maybe it's not about looking hot for guys, but about feeling like a place acknowledged you, winked at you, accepted you. It's strange because, of all the people in all the cities, I'd have thought that to Parisians I'd be invisible, but apparently I'm not. Apparently in Paris, not only can I skate, but I practically qualify for the Olympics!”

People Ifs Feelings Guy Cities Wonder Strange Hot Accepted Invisible Paris Olympics Skates Lightness Buoys

Author:Gayle Forman

“The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.”

Said Masters Envy Accepted Insult

Author:Paulo Coelho

“You cannot force someone to accept an expression of love. You can only offer it. If it is not accepted, you must respect the other person's decision.”

Ifs Persons Force Decision Accepting Love You Expression Offers Accepted Expressions Of Love

Book:The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret That Will Revolutionize Your Relationships

Source: The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret That Will Revolutionize Your Relationships

“The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust.”

Mind Kind May Facts Desire Attitude Achieve Caring Stupidity Accepted Suspicion Clients Therapists Lurking Gullible Desire To Achieve

Author:Carl Rogers

“To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.”

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