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Acceptance
To make oneself an object,
to make oneself passive,
is a very different thing from
being a passive object.
?Simone De Beauvoir
The minute you settle for less
than you deserve, you get even
less than you settled for.
?Maureen Dowd
One must not attempt to justify
them, but rather to sense their
nature simply and clearly.
?Albert Einstein
Once we accept our limits,
we go beyond them.
?Brendan Francis
Ah, when to the heart of man was
it ever less than a treason to go
with the drift of things to yield with
a grace to reason and bow and accept
at the end of a love or a season.
?Robert Frost
The strongest and most effective force
in guaranteeing the long-term
maintenance of power is not violence
in all the forms deployed by the
dominant to control the dominated, but
consent in all the forms in which the dominated
acquiesce in their own domination.
?Maurice Godelier
We will have to repent in
this generation not merely
for the hateful words and
actions of the bad people but
for the appalling silence
of the good people.
?Martin Luther King Jr.
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
Accept everything about yourself --
I mean everything, you are you and
that is the beginning and the end --
no apologies, no regrets.
?Clark Moustakas
Happiness can exist
only in acceptance.
?Denis De Rougamont
Some people swallow the universe
like a pill; they travel on through the world,
like smiling images pushed from behind.
?Robert Louis Stevenson
We cannot change anything
until we accept it. Condemnation
does not liberate, it oppresses.
?C. G. Jung
I wish they would only take me as I am.
?Vincent Van Gogh
The way I see it, if you want the
rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
?Dolly Parton
For after all, the best thing one can
do when it's raining is to let it rain.
?Henry Wadworth Longfellow
