Famous Quotes & Sayings

Archibald MacLeish

Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God himself, can command. It is a free gift or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . The justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of God's inexplicable will, nor our trust in God's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him.

Barbara Jordan

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Ashton Irwin

Apparently I had a boner in the acceptance video

We're here to bring awareness that each person deserves tolerance and acceptance.

Berthold Auerbach

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

Bernie Siegel

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

Bruce Springsteen

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Brian Tracy

To increase your level of self acceptance, think of your unique talents and abilities.

Brian Tracy

Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

Barbara Walters

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

bell hooks

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.

bell hooks

The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.

Arundhati Roy

Acceptance spells death to a writer.

Arianna Huffington

Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance

Boethius

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

We have become this very fear-based culture, especially post-9/11. Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion. I think there would be more love in the world. I'm not talking about rainbows and unicorns and '70s Coca-Cola commercials. I'm talking about gritty, dangerous, wild-eyed love. Radical acceptance of people. Belonging. A good, goofy kind of love.

Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

Arjun Rampal

The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy.

Antonio Gramsci

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

Edmund Clarence Stedman

The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.

Eckhart Tolle

Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.

Deepak Chopra

Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.

Deepak Chopra

What is, is simply what is. Allow it and rejoice in it.

Deepak Chopra

The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.

Edna Ferber

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

Benjamin Franklin

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Barbara Sher

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.

Augusten Burroughs

Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction.

Ayn Rand

Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.

Ayn Rand

It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary.