Acceptance Quotes
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Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and Unprovable, a proof becomes such only after it is accepted (as the result of a highly rigorous process) ... Manin describes the act of acceptance as a social act; however, the importance of its personal, psychological component can hardly be overestimated.
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You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples' acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late.
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If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
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The only thing that really matters is spreading love and light and acceptance and unity throughout the entire world in any way that you possibly can.
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A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it passes for acceptance of an idea.
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Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.
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Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.
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I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance.
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Before we can change anything in our life, we have to recognize that this is the way it is meant to be right now. For me, acceptance has become what I call the long sigh of the soul. It's the closed eyes in prayer, perhaps even the quiet tears. It's "all right," as in "All right, You lead, I'll follow." And it's "all right" as in "Everything is going to turn out all right." This is simply part of the journey.
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I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.
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Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.
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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.
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It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.
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I think there's a lot more appreciation and maturity and acceptance of everyone's flaws.
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Meditation means simple acceptance.
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When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.
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Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
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I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are.
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When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.
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I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.
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There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.
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All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.
