Acceptance Quotes - Page 33

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

Action arising out of suffering is contaminated with suffering and causes further suffering, and that is karma. Action that arises out of a state of "acceptance" is totally free of karma. And there is a vast difference.

Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

Acceptance is the act of embracing what life presents to you with a good attitude.

Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving.

Perfectionism is the fear of being criticized.

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.

I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.

Acceptance spells death to a writer.

Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

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

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.

The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed; ... because if the rule prevails, it includes all cases; and will determine them all, if we can only calculate its real consequences. Hence it will predict the results of new combinations, as well as explain the appearances which have occurred in old ones. And that it does this with certainty and correctness, is one mode in which the hypothesis is to be verified as right and useful.

Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

If you don't accept yourself, you won't live fully, and if you don't live fully you'll need to get full some other way.