Quote: To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Author: Simone De Beauvoir 1908-1986, French Novelist, Essayist
Quote: The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Author: Maureen Dowd American Newspaper Columnist
Quote: One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Author: Brendan Francis
Quote: 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.
Author: Robert Frost 1875-1963, American Poet
Quote: Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Author: Robert Frost 1875-1963, American Poet
Quote: 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.
Author: Maurice Godelier 1934-, French Anthropologist
Quote: 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.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964
Quote: 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.
Author: Russell Lynes 1910-, American Editor, Critic
Quote: Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets.
Author: Clark Moustakas Humanistic Psychologist
Quote: For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.
Author: George Orwell 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''
Quote: Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
Author: Denis De Rougamont
Quote: Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist
Quote: Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: We must accept life for what it actually is -- a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
Author: Ida R. Wylie