Quotes About Acceptance

He mad no moral judgements. He accepted mankind as he found it, and looked for the profit to be made from its strengths or weaknesses.

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

Rage makes a man sick, my son. It spoils his appetite for life and keeps him from sleep at night. We cannot change our world, so we must look for the good things in life and enjoy those to the full.

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Her insan?n içsel bir biçimde yaln?z oldu?undan, bu yaln?zl???n kötü bir ?ey olmad???ndan ve bu konuyu konu?mak istemedi?imden, o zaman da susuyorum. Asl?nda bo? laftan ba?ka bir ?ey de?il ama Traudel için bo? laf de?il. Birçok insan?n içsel yaln?zl???n? inatla inkar etti?ini biliyorum. Traudel de bunlardan biri.

?nsan giysiyi giyer, vücudunda ta??r, ki?inin çözülü?ü bir süreci and?ran biçimde, giysilerin çözülü?üyle ya?am?na intikal eder. ?nsanlar?n y?pranm?? giysilerini atmak için gösterdikleri garip çaba bence, y?pranm?? giysilerin i?aret etti?i çözülü?ün inkar?n?n kan?t?d?r.

Never force anything, just let it be natural, and it will always be okay. Okay?

Yet alongside this rebellion against the father, a respect for and acceptance of his authority continued to exist. This ambivalent attitude toward authority— rebellion against it coupled with acceptance and submission —is a basic feature of every middle-class structure from the age of puberty to full adulthood and is especially pronounced in individuals stemming from materially restricted circumstances.

I am a biological and cultural mongrel and proud of it; in mind and body, I am a product of all classes and races and nations. I don't pretend to be racially or socially pure like you, or a chauvinist like you, petty fascist of all nations, races, and classes.

Modul în care un om î?i accept? destinul este mai important decît însu?i destinul s?u.

Chinese proverb: "That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent." We avoid excessive worry

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

It is difficult to accept changes for the worse.

it is hard to agree with reality if you cannot agree with yourself.

On the other hand, a good mood makes us more likely to accept our first impressions as true without challenging them.

Their recommendation is that you should not put too much weight on regret; even if you have some, it will hurt less than you now think.

Contrary to the rules of philosophers of science, who advise testing hypotheses by trying to refute them, people (and scientists, quite often) seek data that are likely to be compatible with the beliefs they currently hold. The confirmatory bias of System 1 favors uncritical acceptance of suggestions and exaggeration of the likelihood of extreme and improbable events. If

The wide confidence interval is a confession of ignorance, which is not socially acceptable for someone who is paid to be knowledgeable in financial matters. Even if they knew how little they know, the executives would be penalized for admitting it.

The thought of accepting the large sure loss is too painful, and the hope of complete relief too enticing, to make the sensible decision that it is time to cut one's losses.

The reliance on flawed explanations is perhaps inevitable, if the alternative is to give up on understanding our world.

once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws.

there was no awareness, just a habitual connection between an attitude of rejection or acceptance and its common physical expression. You can see why the common admonition to "act calm and kind regardless of how you feel" is very good advice: you are likely to be rewarded by actually feeling calm and kind.

The thought of accepting the large sure loss is too painful, and the hope of complete relief too enticing, to make the sensible decision that it is time to cut one's losses. This is where businesses that are losing ground to a superior technology waste their remaining assets in futile attempts to catch up. Because defeat is so difficult to accept, the losing side in wars often fights long past the point at which the victory of the other side is certain, and only a matter of time.

you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern. WYSIATI facilitates the achievement of coherence and of the cognitive ease that causes us to accept a statement as true.