A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.
Jim Jarmusch
Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
Jessica Lange
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
Albert Ellis
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
Paul Tournier
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
Jean Toomer
Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
Kenneth L. Pike
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
Mason Cooley
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Martha Graham
At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.
Paul Tournier
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
Stuart Chase
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
Bruce Springsteen
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
Madeleine L'Engle
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
Roy Hattersley
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi
Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
Harold Wilson
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie
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