Accepting Quotes - Page 27

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

Through the persons who explicitly accept his Word, the Lord reveals the world to itself.

The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, 'It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea I have as I start.' I could just 'feel' how good it could be. but I decided that, for the present, I would create the best way I know how and accept the ambiguities.

Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience.

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

When I've been open and accepting of where I am, things start opening up.

I'm definitely one of the best. Always have been; always will be. I won't accept anything less.

Whatever is arising in this moment, whatever condition, is part of the isness of life and therefore accepting it fully makes you an expression of the enormous power of life itself-true intelligence, which only comes when you stop obstructing the power of the present moment.

All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.

I believe the only limitations are the ones that we accept.

We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.

I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.

Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.

The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Any cooperation that doesn't go through the Syrian government is not legal. If it's not legal, we cannot cooperate with, and we don't recognize and we don't accept.

When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.

Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it.

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them - that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.