Famous Quotes - Tags - Acceptance

  • Against a spike
    Kick not, for fear it pain thee if thou strike. More
  • Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way.... More
  • And I threw a little earth
    on the pink coffin
    covered by the fake plastic grass
    and... More
  • Demon come forth,
    even if it be God I call forth
    standing like a carrion,
    wanting to... More
  • For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions... More
  • He put his hand upon my shoulder,
    He did not think me strange or older, More
  • I am no longer at war with sin,
    working daily with my little shield and paddle
    against... More
  • I have killed all the good things,
    but they are too stubborn for me.
    They hang on. More
  • I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries,
    shutting out and shutting in,... More
  • If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks. More
  • Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life... More
  • Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room; More
  • On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life,
    Musing is solitude, More
  • Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling... More
  • The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that... More
  • The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful ... More
  • The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. More
  • The strongest and most effective [force] in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of ... power... More
  • The superior person can find peace in poverty; the philosophical mind accepts the will of Heaven. More
  • the wiser mind
    Mourns less for what Age takes away,
    Than what it leaves behind. More
  • There is no mystery in the luminous lines
    Of that high, animal face
    The smile, sad,... More
  • They hear in every whisper that speaks to them
    A shout and a cry.
    As like as not, when... More
  • To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a... More
  • Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu. More
  • We accept her, we accept her, gooble, gobble, gooble, gobble, one of us, one of us, gooble,... More
  • Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
    The worlds revolve like ancient... More
  • “Safe!
    Now let the night be dark for all of me.
    Let the night be too dark for me to... More

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