Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
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My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.
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If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.
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Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.
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Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
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Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
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The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
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I love you Philadelphia. I want to thank you for accepting me, and letting me be me and make this my home forever.
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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I mean thats a big part of our existence here on earth, the personal relationship we have with the person that we love, with the person that we make love to, with the person that we share our lives with. We expect a lot of things back from our loved one, and the lesson is to accept and not expect.
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My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.
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Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.
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Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.
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A healthy person can accept criticism.
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Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.
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I think our need to be loved is so great that it's the thing that damages us the most. I think that's something we can find in any person, though some people are more in tune with it or accepting of it or have moved past it and dealt with it or have a healthier thought process about it than others.
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I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.
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If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.
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Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.
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We're all proud of the communities that we've built and are a part of, but we shouldn't accept lost time and unnecessary stress when traveling in them.
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I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.
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Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.
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You think everybody's paying attention to what you're doing. No, they're paying attention to what's interesting to them.
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I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing.
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She has the gift of accepting her life.
