Acceptance Quotes - Page 18

I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.

Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods

Apparently I had a boner in the acceptance video

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

The only thing that really matters is spreading love and light and acceptance and unity throughout the entire world in any way that you possibly can.

Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.

That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.

Yours is only what you always have on you.

The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments. No rescue by the monied, governing, institutional, or otherwise privileged is in sight. It's up to the energy and inventiveness of the younger generation to pull the gated minds of millennium America toward acceptance of diversity, community, and fairness, and I hope they have as much fun as I did in my adolescences achieving what we Sixties kids only imagined.

If you truly dwell within Acceptance, you are wityout two things-Expectations and Disappointments.

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

I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.

Belief is in a sense passive, an agreement or acceptance only; faith is active and positive, embracing such reliance and confidence as will lead to works. Faith in Christ comprises belief in Him, combined with trust in Him. One cannot have faith without belief; yet he may believe and still lack faith. Faith is vivified, vitalized, living belief.

The future of dance will always be tied up with the public's acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they'll accept the dance.

The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality

The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality.

Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.

Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

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