Acceptable Quotes (page 74)

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• life
• acceptance
• seem

Life seemed nearest to acceptable at four a. m. Wally Lamb

• destiny
• acceptance
• manly

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. Ursula K. Le Guin

• change
• strength
• god

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change. Dan Brown

• happy
• acceptance
• victory

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories. W. Somerset Maugham

• acceptance
• author
• manly

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment. Charlotte Bronte

• life
• strength
• acceptance

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you. T. S. Eliot

• him
• acceptance
• nature

If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will... Carter G. Woodson

• mood
• acceptance
• natural beauty

We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of ? on the score of orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood but respect. The conscience of the just man should be accepted on his word. Moreover, certain natures being given, we admit the possible development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs from our own. Victor Hugo

• acceptance
• commitment
• grace

...that grace is having a commitment to - or at least an acceptance of - being ineffective and foolish. Anne Lamott

• book
• writing
• acceptance

Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public. Paulo Coelho

• acceptance
• truths
• passes

Truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer

• forgiveness
• acceptance
• make

Break a pact. Accept forgiveness. Make a bet. Paulo Coelho

• life
• religious
• acceptance

Thus the truth—that his life should be directed by the spiritual element which is its basis, which manifests itself as love, and which is so natural to man—this truth, in order to force a way to man’s consciousness, had to struggle not merely against the obscurity with which it was expressed and the intentional and unintentional distortions surrounding it, but also against deliberate violence, which by means of persecutions and punishments sought to compel men to accept religious laws... Leo Tolstoy

• she
• physics
• thinking

We think of ourselves as failures, rather than renounce our belief in the possibility of perfection. We hang on to the hope of eternal love by denying even its temporary validity. Its less painful to think 'I'm shallow', 'She's self centred', 'We couldn't communicate', 'It was all just physical', than to accept the simple fact that love is a passing sensation, for reasons beyond our control and even beyond our personalities. But who can reassure himself with his own rationalizations? No... Stephen Vizinczey

• law
• conscience
• acceptance

There was a stricken conscience of public guilt and we all felt that we had been wrong, that something was wrong with that building which we had accepted or the tragedy never would have happened. Moved by this sense of stricken guilt, we banded ourselves together to find a way by law to prevent this kind of disaster. Frances Perkins