One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
When you do your best you learn to accept yourself
History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.
All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.
On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009)
Gardening. . . demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.
I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and feel angry instead. It can work the other way, too – sometimes you do need to feel angry, not inadequate; sometimes you do need to feel love and acceptance, and not the tragic drama of your life. It takes courage to feel the feeling – and not trade it on the feelings-exchange, or even transfer it altogether to another person.
The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
Acceptance is the key to everything.
If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no inclination to change employments.
Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings. . . their importance, their dignity. . . and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world.
I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to look at me the way you look at him, knowing the worst. I want you to trust me, even when your brain tells you you shouldn't, I want you to ignore common sense and your lifelong need to protect yourself. I want you to give yourself to me, body and soul.
I don't wanna be shaped like a girl. I love being shaped like a woman, and trust me ladies, your man won't mind either.
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.