Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Miller

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

Henry Miller

Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. But to arrive at this end, which is only a beginning (for we haven’t begun to live yet!), a man has got to learn the doctrine of acceptance, that is, of unconditional surrender, which is love.

Henry Miller

Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.

Henry Miller

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

Jennifer Lopez

You have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!'

James Agee

The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor. . . . Official acceptance is the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again, and is the one surest sign of fatal misunderstanding, and is the kiss of Judas.

James A. Baldwin

To hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first . . . acceptance totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are [;] . . . the second . . . that one must never, in one's life, accept . . . injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one's strength.

James A. Baldwin

Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface his origins, the marks of which he carries with him everywhere. I think it is important to know this and even find it a matter for rejoicing, as the strongest people do, regardless of their station. On this acceptance, literally, the life of a writer depends.

James A. Baldwin

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

Jacqueline Bisset

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

Gary Zukav

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

Gary Zukav

Judging is a preemptive attack against that which you most desire - intimacy and acceptance - that is launched before you can be rejected or refused.

Gary Zukav

Your emotional reactions to the evil you encounter and your judgments of it show you what you need to change in yourself. Changing those parts of your personality that judge, react in fear, and cannot love into acceptance, fearlessness, and love is the journey you were born to make.

Gary Busey

It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and simple!

George C. Marshall

The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

Christopher Alexander

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

Christine Feehan

I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.

George Orwell

Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Jim Carrey

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Risk being seen in all of your glory

Graham Greene

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

Harold Wilson

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

Hugh Prather

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Hugh Prather

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

Hugh Bonneville

I think any film that asks its audience a degree of tolerance and acceptance of those less fortunate than themselves isn't a bad thing from whatever culture you're in or from whatever part of any political spectrum.

Hannah Arendt

Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic.

Jean Cocteau

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.

Fay Weldon

If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

Fay Weldon

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

F. H. Bradley

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Evangelos Venizelos

We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders.