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Accept life, and you must accept regret.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
1876
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Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.
-James Baldwin
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
-Honore de Balzac
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
-Simone de Beauvoir
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Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have.
-Art Buchwald
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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
-Albert Camus
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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
-Maureen Dowd
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Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.
-Wayne Dyer
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One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
-Albert Einstein
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
attributed, no source
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Accept your genius and say what you think.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
attributed, no source
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George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.
-George Foreman
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
-Brendan Francis
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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
-Robert Frost
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Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.
-Robert Frost
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
-Andre Gide
The Fruits of the Earth
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
-Maurice Godelier
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Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
-Arthur Gordon
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It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do.
-Charly Heavenrich
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The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Psychological Reflections
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History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Albert W. Daw Collection
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Books about Acceptance
