Acceptance Quotes - Page 41

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.

Nothing is ours except time.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.

Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

To have privilege in one or more areas does not mean you are wholly privileged. Surrendering to the acceptance of privilege is difficult, but it is really all that is expected. What I remind myself, regularly, is this: the acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered.

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.

That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!

The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined to accept them as serious like themselves. It's an unfortunate quirk of human nature and ought not to be fretted over.

Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.

Those who go on telling you to amend your nature and improve upon yourself are very dangerous people. They are one of the basic causes for your not being enlightened. Nature cannot be amended; it has to be accepted. There is no way to be otherwise. Whosoever you are, whatsoever you are, that's how you are -- that's what you are. It is a great acceptance.

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.