acceptance

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.

- Rainer Maria Rilke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Jean Louis Agassiz Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said 'hush' just once.

- Patrick Campbell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

- James Russell Lowell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

O God, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed, And wisdom to distinguish one from the other.

- Reinhold Niebuhr Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

- Aristotle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Maya Angelou Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- James Baldwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said 'hush just once.

- Mrs Patrick Campbell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

- Albert Camus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

- Dick Cavett Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 iswhat you are and always will be.

- John Fowles Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Bishop Oliver J. Hart Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

- William James Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

- Carl Gustav Jung Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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....

- Mary L. Kupferle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Lao Tzu Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Reinhold Niebuhr Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- William M. Peck Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- John Pierpont Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- John Roger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

- Jean Toomer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes