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ACCEPTANCE
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I
cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate
misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the
hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing
his suffering. I shall never accept that the law can
be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are,
to make us abandon our ideas of a different world. Law
is the path of liberty, and must as such open the way
to progress for everyone.
-- Oscar
Arias Sanchez
“It
is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain
a thought without accepting it.”
-- Aristotle
(384-322 BC)
"Millions
of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear
of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which
take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and
people's livelihoods"
-- Ban
Ki-moon
Gratitude
unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have
into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns
problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected
into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for
today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
-- Melodie Beattie
"Open
your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will
find a report from somewhere in the world of someone
being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his
opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government."
-- Peter
Benenson
"The
nature of the economic system should be a matter for
public choice, and free market capitalism should not
be accepted without any discussion of the rich variety
of alternatives ... Unlike civil laws, economic laws
are imposed on people with all the authority of immutable
laws of nature. But the economy is created by people,
supported by government intervention, regulation, statute
and subsidy, and implemented in such a way that it gives
substantial wealth and power to a privileged few, while
the majority face a life of relentless work, stress
and periodic financial insecurity."
-- Tony Benn
*If
we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination,
we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should,
therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks
of discrimination or slander.
-- Mary
McLeod Bethune
Peace
cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of
how things might be, in a world where sharing and
caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.
--
Elise
Boulding
You
must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your
best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied
that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as
a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't
branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
-- Rosalynn
Carter
There
is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to
sustain power and privilege, or to believe that
we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social
laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions
that are subject to human will and that must face
the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet
the test, they can be replaced by other institutions
that are more free and more just, as has happened
often in the past.
-- Noam
Chomsky
In our imaginations we believe that love is apart
from us. Actually there is nothing but love, once
we are ready to accept it. When you truly find love,
you find yourself.
-- Deepak
Chopra
*
When
“news stories” are broken, do we not expect a certain
amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has
to ask if this falls under the guise of sloppy reporting
or deception as a source of spin. We seem to accept
a certain amount of deception and we seem to be helpless
to doing anything about it, as illustrated so clearly
by where we are right now in this moment in our history.
-- Sheryl
Crow
I
think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all
try different things, and we find some comfortable
sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn
and grow and move on. We change.
-- Jamie
Lee Curtis
We
now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process
of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing
task is to teach people how to learn.
-- Peter
F. Drucker
The
leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,
never say "I." And that's not because they have trained
themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They
think "we"; they think "team." They understand their
job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility
and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit….
This is what creates trust, what enables you to get
the task done. -- Peter
F. Drucker
*
"Human
beings should only use technology which if the worst
case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely
nuclear energy is not in that category. I want an industrial
world where people are allowed to make errors. Because
human creativity has to do with being allowed to make
errors. We want an error-friendly environment."
-- Hans-Peter
Dürr
Here
in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists
and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from
accepted doctrine.
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
All
my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere
I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted
their answers too, though they were often in contradiction
and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking
for myself and asking everyone except myself questions
which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long
time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations
to achieve a realization everyone else appears to
have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.
–Ralph Ellison
The
right to freedom of expression is justified first
of all as the right of an individual purely in his
capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely
accepted premise of Western thought that the proper
end of man is the realization of his character and
potentialities as a human being.
-- Thomas I. Emerson
"Once
we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
-- Brenden Francis
People
should think things out fresh and not just accept
conventional terms and the conventional way of doing
things.
-- R.
Buckminster Fuller
The
most constructive solutions are those which take into
consideration the views of all persons involved and
are acceptable to all. Such outcomes are the result
of negotiation strategies where the needs of both sides
are considered important and an attempt is made to meet
all needs. These solutions are appropriately called
Win-Win because there are no losers. While often difficult
to arrive at, the process leading to such solutions
builds interpersonal relationships, increases motivation
and improves commitment. Win-Win solutions are the most
desirable outcomes of conflict resolution.
-- Peter Gabor and Carol Ing
"Whether
humanity will consciously follow the law of love,
I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law
will work just as the law of gravitation works, whether
we accept it or not. The person who discovered the
law of love was a far greater scientist than any of
our modern scientists. Only our explorations have
not gone far enough and so it is not possible for
everyone to see all its workings."
-- Mahatma
Gandhi
*
Much of the big media outlets in North America are
owned by arms manufacturers, like Westinghouse, or
G.E. That’s unacceptable. So we’re not getting editorial
policy, we’re not getting a vision of truth. People
just don’t know what is going on anymore, and that’s
really dangerous stuff.
-- Denis
Halliday
Intolerance
is the most socially acceptable form of egotism,
for it permits us to assume superiority without personal
boasting.
-- Sidney J. Harris
"It
doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves.
Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do."
-- Charly Heavenrich
We
need to accept that we won't always make the right
decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes -
understanding that failure is not the opposite of
success, it's part of success.
-- Arianna
Huffington
We,
as human beings, must be willing to accept people
who are different from ourselves.
-- Barbara
Jordan
"I can
accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't
accept not trying."
-- Michael Jordan
*
"...We
have an historic opportunity for a great global healing
and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent
activism with faith, courage, and determination, we
can bring this great vision of a world united in peace
and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality."
--
Coretta Scott King
*
I
refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically
bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that
the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never
become a reality.... I believe that unarmed truth
and unconditional love will have the final word.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr
“We
must accept finite disappointment, but we must never
lose infinite hope.” --
Martin
Luther King, Jr
He
who passively accepts evil is as much involved in
it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts
evil without protesting against it is really cooperating
with it. -- Martin
Luther King, Jr
*
One
who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is
unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience of the community over
its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest
respect for law. --
Martin
Luther King, Jr
*
When
the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps
inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence
over the interests of people. What we are experiencing
might best be described as a case of money colonizing
life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions
and purpose should be considered nothing less than
an act of collective, suicidal insanity."
-- David
Korten
Who
would ever have believed that human beings would be
stupid enough to blow themselves off the face of the
earth? The war started when people accepted the idiotic
principle that peace could be maintained by arranging
to defend themselves with weapons they couldn't possibly
use without committing suicide.
-- Stanley Kramer and John Paxton
Defeat
is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
-- Bruce Lee
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a
precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave
it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get
on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've
got to really look after it and nurture it. -- John
Lennon
Tolerance
is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's
beliefs,
practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting
them.
-- Joshua Liebman
We have
come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation
as a problem that we just can't solve.
-- Linda Lingle
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When
you learn something from people, or from a culture,
you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment
to preserve it and build on it.
-- Yo-Yo
Ma
"To
accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is
the greatest wealth.
To work with patience is to gather power."
-- Vimalia McClure
The
highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official
policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to
call her to a higher standard.
-- George
McGovern
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser
evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as
good.
-- Margaret
Mead
We
need to finally accept that all sentient creatures
are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights
as this --the ability to pursue life without having
someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you.
-- Moby
Children
Learn What They Live -
If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy.
If a child learns to feel shame, he learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement he learns confidence
If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate.
He a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns
to find love in the world.
-- Dorothy Law Neite
*Let
us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child
dies every three seconds simply because he does not
have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to
say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines
your right to life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud,
let us be bold."
-- Brad
Pitt
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important
thing is that you meet it with courage and with
the best that you have to give.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
You
can't move so fast that you try to change the mores
faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean
you do nothing, but it means that you do the things
that need to be done according to priority. -- Eleanor
Roosevelt
When
we allow one group of people to look down upon another,
then we may for a short time bring hardship on some
particular group of people, but the real hardship
and the real wrong is done to democracy and to our
nation as a whole. We are then breeding people who
cannot live under a democratic form of government
but must be controlled by force. We have but to look
out into the world to see how easy it is to become
stultified, to accept without protest wrongs done
to others, and to shift the burden of decision and
responsibility for any action onto some vague thing
called a government or some individual called a leader.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
*
Basically
we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which
peace could grow, unless
we recognized the rights of individual human beings...
their importance, their dignity... and agreed that
was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout
the world.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
*
You
in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But
I hope some day you will, because I believe that it
is through strength, through the fact that people
who know what people need are working to make this
country a better place for all people, that we will
help the world to accept our leadership and understand
that, under our form of government and through our
way of life, we have something to offer them…
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
What
a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence
is an index into his desires -- desires of which
he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered
a fact which goes against his instincts, he will
scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is
overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If,
on the other hand, he is offered something which
affords a reason for acting in accordance to his
instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest
evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this
way. -- Bertrand
Russell
"To
observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's
education.
It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional
hostilities
and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an
absence of love."
-- Milton R. Saperstein
The
acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine
the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy.
The result of such a denial is a growing imbalance
which leads to our adoration of self-interest and
our denial of the public good.
-- John Ralston Saul
"All
truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as
being self-evident."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Peace
is an attitude and a choice we make. For there ever
to be peace on earth, peace must become a viable option
for people to choose to work out their problems; peace
must be the accepted and preferred option.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
Peace
is an attitude and a choice we make. For there ever
to be peace on earth, peace must become a viable option
for people to choose to work out their problems; peace
must be the accepted and preferred option.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
*
Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable
way; it's not acceptable.
-- Alicia
Silverstone
Parents’
accepting attitudes can help children learn to be open and
tolerant.
Parents can explain unfamiliar behavior or physical handicaps
and show children
that the appropriate response to differences should be interest
rather than revulsion.
-- Dian G. Smith
*
...180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms
of child labour. Put it all together and it is not
only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous.
-- Juan
Somavia
"One
who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend
better than any possession."
-- Sophocles (409 BC)
When
we acknowledge the kingdom of the self,
we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or
for others, no matter how it is disguised.
-- Gerry L. Spence
Don't
accept that you can't make a difference. Because if
you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference,
and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue
on an unsustainable pathway.
-- Maurice
Strong
"Every
one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it,
we may not even like it. But whether we know it or
not, whether we accept it or not, mystical experience
is always there, inviting us on a journey of ultimate
discovery. We have been given the gift of life in
this perplexing world to become who we ultimately
are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion,
and wisdom. Existence is a summons to the eternal
journey of the sage - the sage we all are, if only
we could see."
-- Brother
Wayne Teasdale
Genuine
forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the
powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we
have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience
of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.
-- Paul Tillich
“Sometimes
letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending
or hanging on.” — Eckhart Tolle
We challenge
the culture of violence when we our selves
act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable,
that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to
it
in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's
still valid.
-- Gerard Vanderhaar
"There
are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as
they exist,
or accept the responsibility for changing them."
-- Denis Waitley
*
...nothing
on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for
liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept
servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
-- Simone
Weil
*
Love
is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The
spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices
and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love
is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.
To be consciously aware of it, to experience love
in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning
does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
-- Marianne
Williamson
*
Love
is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The
spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices
and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love
is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.
-- Marianne
Williamson
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