Quotes with acceptance

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  • Carol Leifer Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
    Carol Leifer
    American comedian, writer, producer and actress (1956 - )
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  • Baz Luhrmann One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Caleb Cushing Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Salman Rushdie 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.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Russell Lynes The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ivan Illich The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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  • Nathaniel Branden The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • Brian Tracy The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Lenny Bruce The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are - it's ''Look at me, Ma!'' It's acceptance, you know - ''Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma.'' And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Abe Fortas The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • E. B. White The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it - the speed of his acceptance.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Brene Brown The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Bernard Barton When thou a fast would'st keep, Make not thy homage cheap, By publishing its signs to every eye; But let it be between Thyself and the Unseen, So shall it gain acceptance from on high.
    Bernard Barton
    English Quaker poet (1784 - )
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