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 | "Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with
whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." | |
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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| "Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards
of our own." | |
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Jean Toomer
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| "All that we desire, all that we can ever envision or hope to attain
is already provided for us; it is already available and will ever be
awaiting our acceptance...." | |
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Mary L. Kupferle
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| "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially
profitable to dispense it." | |
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Dick Cavett
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| "Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the
first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." | |
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William James
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| "Every great scientific truth goes through three stages: First,
people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it had been
discovered before. Lastly, they say they always believed it." | |
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Jean Louis Agassiz
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| "Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its
limits." | |
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James Baldwin
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| "From every place below the skies The grateful song, the fervent
prayer,? The incense of the heart, ?may rise To heaven, and find
acceptance there." | |
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John Pierpont
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| "Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed,
and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the
wisdom to know one from the other." | |
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Bishop Oliver J. Hart
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| "God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be
changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the
wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first
printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has
become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of
copies." | |
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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| "He who accepts nothing has nothing to return." | |
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Proverb
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| "If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I
treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you
become that." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really
is true, then there would be little hope for advance." | |
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Wilbur Wright
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| "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it." | |
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Aristotle
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| "Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is." | |
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Albert Camus
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| "Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human
beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can
grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it
possible for each to see the other whole against the sky." | |
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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| "The acceptance of the truth that joy and sorrow, laughter and tears
are not confined to any particular time, place or people, but are
universally distributed, should make us more tolerant of and more
interested in the lives of others." | |
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William M. Peck
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| "The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his
maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she
cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!" | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable
character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It
is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by
survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance." | |
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Maya Angelou
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| "The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely." | |
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Carl Gustav Jung
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| "There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that
time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It
is what you are and always will be." | |
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John Fowles
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| "There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument
available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat." | |
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James Russell Lowell
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| "When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it"s difficult to learn. A
clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly
against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a
lesson." | |
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John Roger
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| "When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush"
just once." | |
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Mrs. Patrick Campbell
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| "When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ?hush?
just once." | |
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Mrs Patrick Campbell
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| "{There are two paths leading to oneness with the Tao.} The first in
the path of acceptance. Affirm everyone and everything. Freely extend you
goodwill and virtue in every direction, regardless of circumstances.
Embrace all things as part of the Harmonious Oneness, and then you will
begin to perceive it. The second path is that of denial. Recognize that
everything you see and think is a falsehood, an illusion, a veil over the
truth. Peel all the veils away, and you will arrive at the Oneness. Though
these paths are entirely different, they will deliver you to the same
place: spontaneous awareness of the Great Oneness." | |
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Lao Tzu
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