Accepting Quotes:

Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.

- Abbi Glines

topic: Dream, Sleep, Accepting

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

topic: Jealousy, Credit, Accepting

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

- Abdul Kalam

topic: Acceptance, Accepting, Willing

Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.

- Abe Fortas

source: Abe Fortas (1968). “Concerning dissent and civil disobedience”, World Publishing Co.

topic: Accepting, Monopoly, Dissent

But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.

- Abu Bakar Bashir

topic: Leader, Proposal, Accepting

Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.

- Adrian Rogers

topic: Acceptance, Grace, Accepting

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

- Agnes de Mille

topic: Creative, Demon, Accepting, Second Rate

So you have to accept facts as fact.

- Ai Yazawa

topic: Facts, Accepting

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

- Alan Keyes

topic: Military, Agendas, Accepting

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

- Alan Rudolph

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Lying, Accepting

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

- Alan Watts

topic: Intellectual, Inability, Accepting, Man And Nature, Use Of Technology

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

- Alastair Campbell

topic: Accepting, Crisis

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

- Albert Ellis

topic: People, Accepting, Therapists

The latest indication we have is that Amado is experiencing some delay in getting his visa. We understand that and we can accept that as a plausible reason for him not to be here.

- Alexi Lalas

topic: Delay, Reason, Accepting

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

- Alfred Stieglitz

source: Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”

topic: Men, Done, Accepting

Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.

- Ali MacGraw

topic: Land, Way, Accepting, Surrounded By Love, Relinquishing

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

- Alice Walker

source: Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 6, 2010.

topic: Attitude, Accepting, Should

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Sorrow, Accepting, Lost

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

- Amitabh Bachchan

topic: Age, Accepting, Flattering

I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.

- Amy Lee

topic: Pluto, Accepting, Planets

I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended.

- Amy Pascal

source: "Sony Film Executives Apologize for Racially Tinged Emails About Obama". Statement to the Press, www.nytimes.com. December 11, 2014.

topic: Responsibility, Apologizing, Accepting

I have to ask you to resist, not comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it, and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it.

- Andrea Dworkin

source: "Life And Death". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1987.

topic: Men, Cost, Accepting, Power Man

I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud.

- Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

topic: Election, Accepting, Results

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

- Andy Goldsworthy

topic: Purpose, Accepting, Projects

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

- Angela Davis

topic: Accepting, Women Leadership

We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Christian, Humanity, Accepting

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other.. I was a cartoon character. A joke.

- Ann-Margret

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Character, Cartoon, Accepting, Cartoon Character

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

- Anne Holm

source: Anne Holm (1965). “North to freedom”

topic: People, Honest, Accepting, Bad People, Bribery

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

- Anne Tyler

source: Anne Tyler (2003). “Saint Maybe”

topic: Views, Burden, Accepting

The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.

- Anthony Kennedy

source: "Rehnquist slams Congress over reducing sentencing discretion" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. January 1, 2004.

topic: Unjust, Accepting, Should, Unwise

Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary.

- Anuj

topic: People, Ordinary, Accepting

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

- Aretha Franklin

topic: People, Realist, Accepting

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

- Ariel Pink

source: "Ariel Pink: 'I'm not that guy everyone hates'". Interview with Rhik Samadder, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2014.

topic: Humanity, Embrace, Accepting, Facets

I don't know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it's the only time you've got. You can either sit on your expletive deleted or pick a daisy.

- Art Buchwald

topic: Reality, Daisies, Accepting, Accepting Reality, Expletives

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Destruction, Accepting, Interest

Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory.

- Arthur Eddington

topic: Facts, Accepting, Theory

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

- Arthur Rubinstein

topic: Life, Accepting, Existence

You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.

- Arturo Pérez-Reverte

source: Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1994). “The Flanders Panel”, Harvill Press

topic: Accepting, Reservations, Rejects

What love will make you do All the things that we accept Be the things that we regret

- Ashanti

source: Song: Foolish, Album: Ashanti, 2002

topic: Life, Regret, Accepting

Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.

- Aubrey de Grey

source: "You Can Live Forever: Is Immortality Plausible? Or Is It Quack Science?". Interview with Andrew Romano, www.newsweek.com. July 24, 2013.

topic: Accepting, Difficulty, Impossibility

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Accepting, Used, Diminish, Chisels

What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?

- Audre Lorde

topic: Dying, Faces, Accepting

Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.

- August Strindberg

topic: Evil, Accepting

And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.

- Austin Osman Spare

topic: Suffering, Remember, Accepting

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

topic: Mean, Acceptance, Accepting

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Witty, Guilt, Accepting

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

- B. F. Skinner

source: B.F Skinner (2012). “Science And Human Behavior”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

topic: Wish, Facts, Accepting

I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.

- Bai Ling

topic: Accepting, Born, Just Live

When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.

- Bai Ling

topic: Real, Want, Accepting

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

- Bar Refaeli

topic: Able, Accepting Yourself, Accepting

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

- Barry Mann

topic: Rejection, Able, Accepting

Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?

- Beatrice Sparks

topic: Way, Accepting, Difficult

Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.

- Benjamin Hoff

topic: Loss, Gains, Accepting, Gains And Losses

The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Reality, Keys, Accepting

I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

- Beth Ditto

topic: Feminist, Accepting, Feels

When you come before spiritual master, be prepared to get chastised. Spiritual Master's business is to do that. Shisya means who is ready is accept 'sashan' or ready dor getting chastisement.

- Bhakti Charu Swami

topic: Spiritual, Mean, Accepting, Spiritual Masters, Chastisement

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

- Bill Crawford

topic: Sometimes, Accepting, Ability, Willingness To Change

Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.

- Bob Barr

topic: Order, Requirements, Accepting

Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form.

- Bob Crosby

topic: Appreciation, Accepting, Form, Hesitant

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Hard Times, People, Accepting

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

- Bobby Jones

source: Bobby Jones (1960). “Golf is My Game”

topic: Golf, Ideas, Accepting, Resolute, Rosy

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

- Bodhidharma

topic: Karma, Awareness, Accepting, Goes Around Comes Around

I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

- Boris Trajkovski

topic: Anger, Succeed, Accepting, Allegations

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

- Brendan Behan

topic: Accepting, Limitation

Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Responsibility, Understanding, Accepting

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Choices, Decision, Accepting, Choices And Decisions

The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something which is unstable in its basic character, you begin to get a way of dealing with it.

- Bridget Riley

topic: Character, Way, Accepting, Dealing With It, Instability

I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

- Bronislaw Malinowski

topic: Christian, Atheism, Accepting

A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Art, Responsibility, Accepting, Martial Artist

Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

- Bruce Oldfield

topic: Cutting, Accepting, Rate, Cutting Corners, Second Rate

To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!!

- C. B. Cebulski

topic: Writing, Asking, Accepting

We must accept our pain Change what we can and laugh at the rest

- Camille Paglia

topic: Pain, Laughing, Accepting

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

- Carl Jung

topic: Inspirational, Change, Accepting, Memories Dreams Reflections

Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide

- Carl Jung

topic: Giving, Accepting, Guides

We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.

- Carl Rogers

source: Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Moving, Accepting, Unnoticed

The only thing you can do is prepare the best you can and then just accept... stuff happens.

- Carlos Condit

topic: Mma, Stuff, Accepting, Stuff Happens

To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

- Carlos Ghosn

topic: People, Faces, Accepting, Deflation

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.

- Caroline Rhea

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Accepting Yourself, Accepting, Calories

People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.

- Celia Green

source: Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

topic: People, Might, Accepting

I guess I have learnt now that life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

- Celina Jaitly

source: Twitter post from Sep 19, 2013

topic: Apology, Accepting, Easier

I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.

- Charles Grodin

source: Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 20, 2009.

topic: People, Done, Accepting

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

- Charles Kennedy

source: "The New Statesman Interview - Charles Kennedy". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.newstatesman.com. Januray 29, 2011.

topic: Essentials, Cigarette, Accepting

God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Decision, Accepting, Gods Will, Rejects You

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

topic: Social, Accepting, Process

We're not very accepting of people who act strangely.

- Chester Brown

topic: People, Accepting

Even though I am going to miss out on my prom or I am going to miss out on walking across stage to accept my diploma, that's OK to me because I know I will have other perks in life.

- Cheyenne Kimball

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Missing, Diploma, Accepting

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

source: Speech at Wellesley College, time.com. 2015.

topic: Reason, Accepting

When I was younger, I was really anti-Hollywood. Now I'm more accepting of it because I'm less of a snob.

- Chloe Sevigny

topic: Hollywood, Accepting, Snob

Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.

- Chogyam Trungpa

topic: Warrior, Way, Accepting

You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

- Chogyam Trungpa

topic: Responsibility, Accepting

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

- Chris Brogan

topic: Criticism, Praise, Accepting

If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.

- Chris Brogan

topic: Praise, Accepting, Critics

I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.

- Chris Davis

topic: Punishment, Accepting

Accept and allow. This is the key to living a life full of Love.

- Chris Johnson

source: Chris Johnson (2013). “It's About You!: Know Your Self”, p.317, John Hunt Publishing

topic: Keys, Accepting

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

- Chris Matthews

source: Chris Matthews (2010). “The Hardball Handbook: How to Win at Life”, p.14, Random House

topic: Failure, Chance, Accepting

Pick your battles, and accept yourself for who you are.

- Chrissie Wellington

topic: Battle, Accepting Yourself, Accepting

You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.

- Christine Feehan

source: Christine Feehan (2012). “Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters Series: Five Novels and a Novella”, p.510, Penguin

topic: Love You, Enough, Accepting

It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

- Christmas Humphreys

source: Christmas Humphreys (2012). “Exploring Buddhism”, p.74, Routledge

topic: Accepting

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Henry Kissinger, Trustworthy, Accepting

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

- Christopher Reeve

topic: Accepting, Ultimatum, Conventional Wisdom

But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand.

- Christopher Ryan

topic: Acceptance, Strive, Accepting

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

- Claude Bernard

topic: Accepting

The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.

- Cleanthes

topic: Adversity, Fate, Accepting

The only way for the market to accept this reality is if fares are advanced slowly and cautiously, and the very low fares do still appear from time-to-time in the market to allow those who will not travel without them to have access to our service.

- Clive Beddoe

topic: Reality, Way, Accepting

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Fashion, Accepting, Should

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

- Condoleezza Rice

topic: Leader, World, Accepting

We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.

- Cynthia Hand

topic: Thinking, Accepting, Being Content

It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed.

- Cynthia Lewis

topic: Reality, Swings, Accepting, Accepting Reality

If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.

- D. A. Carson

topic: Humility, Accepting, Harder, Rebuke

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Politics, Accepting, Heard, Invoke, Verdict

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

- Dale Archer

topic: Running, Keys, Accepting

I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.

- Dan Aykroyd

source: "Soul survivor". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2007.

topic: Challenges, Accepting, Sceptic

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

- Dan Brown

topic: Prayer, Accepting, Grants, Angels And Demons

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

- Dan Brown

source: Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.378, Knopf

topic: Fans, Accepting

genius accepts genius unconditionally

- Dan Brown

topic: Genius, Accepting

Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.

- Dan Millman

topic: Finding Peace, Embrace, Accepting, Accepting What Is

Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.

- Dan Millman

topic: Knowing, Doe, Accepting

You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.

- Darrell Issa

source: "Uncomfortable Climate" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.

topic: Pain, Compliment, Accepting

Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.

- David Chalmers

topic: Thinking, People, Accepting

You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.

- David Chipperfield

topic: Missing, Lasts, Accepting, Last Supper, Filling In

Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.

- David Gerrold

source: "A Season for Slaughter (The War Against the Chtorr, Book 4)". Book by David Gerrold, 1992.

topic: Contentment, Aging, Accepting

If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.

- David O. Selznick

topic: Guarantees, Accepting, Contracts, Accept Me

The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.

- David Platt

topic: Dream, Assumption, Accepting

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

- David Tudor

topic: Accepting, Situation, Unpredictability

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been and all that you will be in the future.

- Debbie Ford

topic: Acceptance, Agents, Accepting

Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relaitonship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose.

- Deborah

topic: Responsibility, Benefits, Accepting, Choose Wisely, Freedom To Choose

It is what it is. Either walk on, or accept.

- Deborah Lawrenson

source: Deborah Lawrenson (2011). “The Lantern”, p.10, Hachette UK

topic: Accepting, Walks, It Is What It Is

All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Exhilaration, Dogma, Accepting

If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Looks, Who We Are, Accepting

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Change, Accepting, Unchangeable, Some People Never Change, Positive Change

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game

- Dennis Eckersley

topic: Games, Accepting

To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself.

- Dennis Merzel

source: Dennis Genpo Merzel (2005). “The Path of the Human Being: Zen Teachings on the Bodhisattva Way”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

topic: Acceptance, Realization, Accepting, Accepting The Truth

Personal style is accepting who you are.

- Diane von Furstenberg

topic: Style, Accepting, Who You Are, Personal Style

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

- Dick Gregory

topic: People, Accepting, Obvious

But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

- Dinah Sheridan

topic: Husband, Engagement, Accepting, Happy Times, Accept Me

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

- Dixie Lee Ray

topic: Feminist, Accepting

The person I loved...was the 'past' you. If I couldn't accept that 'past' you, then there won't be time in the future to do so...

- Dohee

topic: Drama, Past, Accepting

NO, I will not accept straight edge into my life!

- Dolph Ziggler

topic: Straight Edge, Accepting

Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

- Donald Miller

topic: Self, Discipline, Accepting, Accepting God

A JSON decoder MAY accept and ignore comments.

- Douglas Crockford

topic: May, Accepting, Comment

We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Victory, Accepting

We should not accept an evil we can change.

- E. Lockhart

source: E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.203, Delacorte Press

topic: Evil, Accepting, Should

You must accept something before you can change it.

- Eben Pagan

topic: Personal Development, Accepting

When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Peaceful, Moments, Accepting

Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Perfection, Moments, Accepting

When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises,

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Grateful, Accepting, Arise

Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Acceptance, Resistance, Accepting

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Matter, Moments, Accepting, Stillness Speaks

If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Accepting, Situation

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

- Ed Harris

topic: Reality, World, Accepting, Truman Show

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

- Edith Stein

topic: Accepting

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

- Edmund Clarence Stedman

source: Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

topic: Poet, Accepting, Critics, Encouragers

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

- Edward Dahlberg

topic: Chance, Enough, Accepting

I did not do anything wrong as a governor, even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that.

- Edwin Edwards

topic: Accepting

The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.

- Edwin Meese

source: United States. Dept. of Justice, Edwin Meese (1989). “Major Policy Statements of the Attorney General: Edwin Meese III, 1985-1988”

topic: Decision, Judgment, Accepting, Astonishing, Implications

You will have wonderful surges forward. Then there must be a time of consolidating before the next forward surge. Accept this as part of the process and never become downhearted.

- Eileen Caddy

topic: Next, Wonderful, Accepting, Downhearted

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

- Elena Anaya

source: "Elena Anaya On Baring It All". Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

topic: Growing Up, Fall, Accepting

Accept your own and be yourself!

- Elijah Muhammad

source: Elijah Muhammad (2008). “Everything Was Going So Well...Then We Accepted Jesus: : How Christianity Deceived the Black Nation”, p.113, Elijah Muhammad Books

topic: Being Yourself, Accepting

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Death, Facts, Accepting

There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.

- Elise Broach

topic: Differences, Giving, Accepting

Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.

- Elizabeth Barton

topic: Pride, Divine, Accepting

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Atheism, Hebrew, Accepting

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

- Elizabeth Edwards

topic: Reality, Resilience, Accepting

There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Accepting, Gracious, Offers, Essayists

She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.

- Ellen Hopkins

topic: Accepting, Status Quo

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.

- Ellen Page

source: YouTube Channel "Human Rights Campaign"/"Ellen Page Joins HRCF's Time to Thrive Conference", www.youtube.com. February 14, 2014.

topic: Life, People, Accepting

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

- Elsie de Wolfe

source: Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

topic: Design, Use, Accepting

I have to accept risk as a racing driver.

- Emerson Fittipaldi

source: Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. 2002.

topic: Risk, Racing, Accepting, Racing Driver

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

- Emma Goldman

topic: Education, Mind, Accepting, Crave

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.

- Emmeline Pankhurst

source: Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.146, 谷月社

topic: Men, Morality, Accepting, Moral Code

By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

- Epictetus

topic: Fighting, Limits, Accepting, Accepting Life

You can have all you can expect and accept.

- Eric Butterworth

topic: Expectations, Accepting

If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label,

- Eric Holder

topic: Labels, Want, Accepting

The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.

- Erwin McManus

source: Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Boundaries, Accepting, Existence

One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

- Etty Hillesum

topic: Moments, Accepting, Honestly

I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but deride them with cynicism and scepticism when they see others helping and being helped.

- Eva Hart

topic: Helping, Cynicism, Accepting

The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.

- Faraaz Kazi

topic: Moving, Accepting, Aspect, Moving Forward In Life, Moving On In Life

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

- Faran Tahir

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Differences, Accepting, Willing

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

- Fay Weldon

topic: Perseverance, Defeat, Accepting

Never accept your limitations - because there are NO limitations.

- Felix Baumgartner

topic: Accepting, Limitation

Everyone has limits. Not everyone accepts them.

- Felix Baumgartner

topic: Limits, Accepting

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

- Fidel Castro

topic: President, Accepting, States

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

- Francesca Annis

topic: Decay, Firsts, Accepting

I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.

- Francois Duvalier

source: "Haiti: An insider's history of the rise and fall of the Duvaliers". Book by Elizabeth Abbott (p. 103), 1988.

topic: People, Revolutionary, Accepting

What you cannot control, you must accept.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Accepting

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

- Frank Howard Clark

topic: Doubt, Accepting, Folks

A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth.

- Franz Bardon

source: "Initiation Into Hermetics". Book by Franz Bardon, p. 55, 1956.

topic: Maturity, Levels, Accepting

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

- Frederick Buechner

topic: Pride, Forgiving, Accepting

Art accepts what it finds.

- Frederick Sommer

topic: Art, Photographer, Accepting

"I accept your condemnation," I said.

- Gabrielle Zevin

topic: Accepting, Condemnation, Said

You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Beautiful, Good Luck, Accepting

My son gave me the permission to accept my success.

- Gary Burghoff

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Son, My Son, Accepting, Accept Me

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

- Gary Kovacs

topic: Privacy, Internet, Accepting

When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

- Gary Numan

topic: Facts, Kind, Accepting

Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.

- Gary Zukav

topic: Life Is, Accepting, Reverence

You are mine,” he rasped. “Only ever mine. I accept all that you are, and we can be together.

- Gena Showalter

topic: Together, Accepting

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

- George Cukor

topic: Failure, Accepting, Learning From Failure

..the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families...

- George Eliot

topic: Gout, Rich, Accepting

A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.

- George Eliot

topic: Women, Accepting, Made

They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening

- George Orwell

topic: Reality, Events, Accepting