acceptance Quotes

The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking at. Then comes a time when a multitude of contradictory objections are raised, such as: the new theory is too fancy, or merely a new terminology; it is not fruitful, or simply wrong. Finally a state is reached when everyone seems to claim that he had always followed this theory. This usually marks the last state before general acceptance.

To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy has not disappeared; it has changed form. In the old form, women were forced to obey an overbearing husband in the privacy of an unjust marriage. In the new form, the working single mother is economically abandoned by her former husband and ignored by a patriarchal society at large.

Autism is not a choice. Acceptance is. Imagine if the opposite was true.

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions <br />and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, <br />so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages.

There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity,

Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

Lao Tzu says: \'Accept yourself. Non-acceptance is the root of all the trouble.\' None of us accept ourselves. The more a person doesn't accept himself, the greater a mahatma he looks to others to be. We are our greatest enemy. If we had our way, we would cut ourselves to pieces in order to remove what was unacceptable.

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all Ђ' from the most simple task to the most complex.

I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and lifelong, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.

In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse.

Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation, because through acceptance awareness becomes possible.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.