“If we learn to accept our imperfections with humor, as the reflection of our very humanity, we will experience humility and tolerance, we will understand that we are already filled with forgiveness, we will see the gift of our lives, the chains will fall away, and we will be free -- free not so much from fear or 'dependence,' but free for love, for life itself.” IfsHumanityFallAcceptingOur LivesHumilityReflectionFilledToleranceChainsLove LifeImperfectionDependence Author:Ernest Kurtz
“In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few treacherous supports--the feigned compassion of one, the flattery of a second, the civilities of a third, the friendship of a fourth--they all deceive, and bring the mind back to retirement, reflection, and books.” WorldMindBookCompassionAcceptingSupportSolitudeReflectionGainsThirdsRetirementFourthDeceivingFlatteryCivilityTreacherous Book:The Beauties of Sterne: With Some Account of His Life Source: The Beauties of Sterne: With Some Account of His Life
“The history in our country speaks to our highest values of people who did not accept things as they are and go along with them. They resisted, they refused to accept the world as it is, they demanded it to be a better reflection of their highest dreams and highest aspirations.” PeopleWorldCountryDreamValuesSpeakAcceptingHighestReflectionOur CountryAspiration Author:Cory Booker
“Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of depth. I'm sure this is true in some cases, but on the whole I can't accept this as a vision of art. There's something so cynical about assuming your audience is unintelligent or that artists shouldn't care about their viewers.” ArtI CanWholeCareArtistAcceptingVisionCasesAudienceReflectionUnderstoodAssumingDepthNotionContemporaryDirtyCynicalViewersPopulismContemporary ArtDirty WordsUnintelligent Author:Dario Robleto
“So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.” IfsWayResponsibilityAcceptingPositiveReflectionCarefulObligationBehaveBe Careful Author:Sidney Poitier
“Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.” LooksLongRealMatterEnoughFacesEvilAcceptingExpressionReflectionWorthyArguingSatisfiedConstructionClicheGrotesqueGrinningDispassionateUnder Construction Author:Flannery O'Connor
“When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.” LifeWritingDoePhilosophyAcceptingTeacherReflectionExcellent Author:Frederic Chopin
“Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it’s only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone.” KnowsWayYoungJoySufferingPassionCoursesActingAcceptingFateUniqueReflectionRainbowTransparent Book:Happy Death Source: Happy Death
“He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined, and so he had come to accept that this would only be half as good as the original, half as acceptable as the flawless, unachievable novel that had acted as a guide, and which he imagined pulsating mockingly behind each book like some ghostly presence.” BookBehindsHalfAcceptingNovelPaperReflectionOriginalsGuidesAcceptablePaleFlawless Author:Félix J. Palma
“What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?” LooksAcceptingSelf EsteemReflectionMirrorsDespiseLoatheResigned Author:Justina Chen
“I remember a Buddhist teachers reflections on the Holocaust...What terrible karma those Jews mustve had... This kind of fundamentalism, which blames the victims and rationalizes their horrific fate, is something no longer to be tolerated quietly. It is time for... modern Buddhism to outgrow it by accepting social responsibility and finding ways to address such injustices.” WayKindRememberSocialResponsibilityAcceptingTeacherFateModernBuddhismTerribleFindingsReflectionVictimBlameInjusticeJewKarmaBuddhistAddressesHolocaustFundamentalismSocial ResponsibilityHorrificRationalize Author:David Loy