Aristotle Quotes, Mean Quotes, Acceptance Quotes

We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

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To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Hurt Quotes , Acceptance Quotes

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.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Acceptance Quotes , Long Quotes

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Acceptance Quotes , Soul Quotes

One of the first things I look for in a woman I meet is a sense of humor, a sort of light acceptance of the world and the people who live in it.

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Tags : Adam West Quotes , Acceptance Quotes , Light Quotes

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Acceptance Quotes , Power Quotes

Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Acceptance Quotes , Perfect Quotes

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Giving Up Quotes , Acceptance Quotes

I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Believe Quotes , Acceptance Quotes

Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Acceptance Quotes

I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Educational Quotes , Acceptance Quotes

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Creativity Quotes , Acceptance Quotes

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Acceptance Quotes , Peaceful Quotes

Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Acceptance Quotes , Expectations Quotes

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.

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Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Acceptance Quotes , People Quotes

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

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