First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.
When you accept yourself you are free from the need for others to accept you.
Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.
Do not worry at being worried; but accept worry peacefully. Difficult but not impossible.
To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.
I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual. ' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.
My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.
People have souls, and we all accept that cities have souls, too. It's why the locations are so important.
I think part of our faults as humans is that we are very arrogant and I think we have taken many things for granted because of the way European have taken us, which is a failure and for them to totally come out and accept is a failure.
I've learned to accept birth and death. . . but sometimes I still worry about what lies between.
And have the courage to accept that you're not perfect; nothing is, and no one is - and that's OK.
We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.
You, just as you are, and your life here, right now, are all there is and all you need to know. You don't have to do anything special. Mostly, you have to be open to meeting face to face, and even dancing with, the truth that pertains to your life right now. You have to find a way to collect your fractured pieces, examine them, and the accept them as part of who you are. Spiritual practice is about transformation, but it's also, and more importantly, about working with what is.
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
Accept who you are; and revel in it.
I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.
Receiving the president of the United States in your restaurant is a big thing. Obama came three times. There's a sense of pride when you're one of few who has had a chance to spend an evening with the president of the United States. Despite if he's Republican or Democrat, we accept them all. Also, I remember days when I had Julia Child coming, with close friends. I had a great relationship with Julia. So those moments are more of affection and admiration than of fancy pride.