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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.
We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions.
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!
If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.
Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.
Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.
I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it
Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.
The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.
I'm a mother and I have a daughter. I'm lucky to be in a position where I'm able to teach her things like self love and acceptance.
Acceptance is the only thing you should teach. Be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Dalit, you must inculcate acceptance, not tolerance.
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.
No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.
I don't have to pretend to be someone I'm not and I think talking so openly about my story gave me acceptance that it's ok to be me.
None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.
Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
People spend thousands of dollars trying to keep their teeth straight. I just hope we can live in a world where we accept gay teeth.
There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.
I especially worry about the ways Canadians can be glib about our supposed difference from the US in our "acceptance" of "diversity."
A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly.
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.
The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.
If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
Pleas for white acceptance of black humanity have a long and terrible history in America, stretching back to the first slave narratives.
I actually just keep things very professional. I don't need acceptance from anyone but God, so that's just kind of where I focus it all.
The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.
I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.
I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.
It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.
Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.
It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.
...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.
Those who accept freedom of religion as a right are obligated by this acceptance to take the maintenance of freedom of religion as a duty.
Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.
It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.