Accepting Quotes - Page 34

Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

I love to say "please" and you have to accept me that way. If you don't, it's your problem.

I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.

He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others.

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.

It's easier for me to accept that I can't play anymore because I literally gave it all I got. That allows me to be a little bit more at peace.

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

Just accepting that vulnerability is part of the deal, I think, makes that part okay.

Break a pact. Accept forgiveness. Make a bet.

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas.

No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.

I had to brainwash myself, like what I was doing was going to be really, really good, and then just accept whatever happened.

It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.

I'm never satisfied. I can always find things that I can do better and go further on, so I force myself to accept when someone says, "We have it, it's good and we can move on."

It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself.

If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none.

The civilized world must remain united and vigilant against the rogue state's development of a nuclear arsenal. We will never accept a nuclear North Korea.