“One of the biggest things I've done is learn how to love myself, flaws and all. Even the things I don't like about myself, I accept. People have made fun of me and made me self-conscious about talking so softly, for example, but I accept that as who I am and I'm not changing it for anybody. I'm at peace with who I am now, and once you've achieved that, all the other stuff disappears.” PeopleMadeSelfDoneFunStuffTalkingAcceptingExampleConsciousDisappearWho I AmFlawsSelf ConsciousHow To LoveLove Myself Author:Ricky Williams
“Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal meekly. Frequently call to mind Our Lady's journey into Egypt with her Holy Child, and of all the poverty, contempt and suffering they endured. If you follow their example you will indeed be rich amid your poverty.” IfsMindChildrenSufferingGivenPoorAcceptingPovertyRichJourneyExampleHumilityHolyAskingAshamedContemptEgyptRefusalAlms Book:Introduction to the Devout Life Source: Introduction to the Devout Life
“Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.” MayHas BeensBookLastsCertainForceNaturalHalfAcceptingEnvironmentImagineInfluenceExampleDesignMaterialsTheoryEvolutionCampaignsLocalsDozenSelectionMisunderstandingAdaptationVariationNatural SelectionArthurRejectingRaw MaterialsConductingDarwinismGood DesignCapricious Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“I just tend to admire people who go for what they believe in, like David Lynch for example, and just say what goes through their heads, and are not afraid of people not accepting them. I have no respect for people who deliberately try to be weird to attract attention, but if that's who you honestly are, you shouldn't try to "normalize yourself". It's a fine line.” PeopleIfsTryingBelieveLinesAttentionAcceptingExampleFineHonestlyAdmireNot AfraidFine LinesNo Respect Author:Alicia Witt
“Tyrants and dictators will accept no other gods before them. They require disobedience to the First Commandment. They seek absolute control and are threatened by faith in God. They fear only the power they cannot possess - the power of truth. So they resent the living example of the devout, especially the devotion of a unique people chosen by God.” PeopleFirstsHumorPoliticalAcceptingExampleUniqueAbsolutesDevotionChosenTyrantsFaith In GodDictatorCommandmentsThreatenedDisobedienceResentPolitical HumorChosen By God Author:George W. Bush
“Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.” NeedsFirstsMightGrowsParentInterestingBehindsAcceptingRolesGenerationsStageExampleConnectionsComplexesSeparationPassagesGrandparentDriftingMentoring Book:Childhood's Future Source: Childhood's Future
“Clearly, audiences are very accepting of A-list talent both giving them what they want - Tom Hanks is the most classic example - and then going on, from time to time, to do things that are unexpected. That's part of what makes people want to go to the movies and not just sit home.” PeopleWantGivingHomeAcceptingAudienceTalentExampleListsClassicUnexpectedToms Author:Mark Canton
“Men accept compliments much better than women do. Example: "Mitch, you look great." Mitch: "Thanks." On the other side: "Ruth, you look great." Ruth: "I do? Must be the lighting."” MenLooksHumorFunnySidesAcceptingExampleThanksComplimentLightingRuth Author:Rita Rudner
“The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit' -- is only one example of a challenge where hard work is paying off and science does not need to accept the false explanations peddled by religions.” NeedsHumansDoeHardTogetherSpiritProcessChallengesConsciousnessAcceptingExampleHard WorkIncludingExplanationHuman SpiritBaggageBundles Author:Peter Atkins
“Enjoy life and change things. And maybe by giving examples of people who achieve things, who succeed, who are proactive and being happy and facing their own destinies, rather than accepting what the world throws at at them - we should fight! Not like street fighting, but the little act of defiance every day.” PeopleWorldGivingShouldLittlesFightingEnjoyAcceptingDestinyStreetsAchieveExampleSucceedEnjoy LifeDefianceProactiveLife And Change Author:Haifaa al-Mansour
“I never wanted to accept the position of the observer who is not involved in the situation. The technique and the aesthetics do not matter to me. Only the essence of what is happening is important to me. Here, for example, blurred pictures, they have appeared because for years I was shooting while being drunk.” YearsImportantMatterWantedSituationAcceptingExamplePositionInvolvedHappeningsEssenceTechniqueDrunkShootingObserversAestheticsBeing Drunk Author:Antoine D'Agata
“We live in a world that is dominated by science. And that's not a bad thing - not at all. But one of the problems with the scientific worldview is that it leads human beings to have an overwhelmingly theoretical relationship to the world. For example, I no longer accept my being in the world practically and then try to describe that or elucidate that; rather, I see the world theoretically as colors and objects and representations which are fed through my retina into the brain.” WorldTryingHumansProblemHuman BeingsBrainAcceptingExampleObjectsColorFedsBad ThingsRepresentationTheoreticalWorldview Author:Simon Critchley
“Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you.” PeopleHumansWellsMaySelfHelpingPainDesireDiesOpportunityGrowsRealizingAcceptingLordDyingExampleLike YouConflictCrossesEndureAcceptedHuman LifeTortureEach DayDaily LifeResurrectionAgonySelf CenteredCrucifixionRebuff Author:Mother Teresa
“I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.” ThinkingWayCoursesAcceptingExamplePositionLike YouAuthorityPrisonerSyndromesSubmissivePressuredStockholm Author:Ingrid Betancourt