Quotes About Accepting

To the average intellect, nothing is so alluring as a paradox. The reason is simple: in accepting a paradox, the average intellect feels that it has risen above the average. Any fool can believe what is possible and probable, but it demands no ordinary gifts, whether mental or spiritual, to believe what is absurd.

take a fatalistic attitude toward their life and refuse to spend their final years wishing, pointlessly, that it could have been different than it was.

She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom.

That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them. Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like them.

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? Isn't it a sufficient condemnation of society to find one's self accepting such phraseology?

The things you cannot change you can't waste your time on.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

It's really hard to argue that bitcoin doesn't have many legitimate benefits to companies that are legal businesses when you have Dell and Expedia and all these companies now accepting it.

Earlier in my career, there may have been compulsions for accepting films for money.

Parents were what they were; it was not up to you to try to puzzle them out.

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love: of accepting the possibility that God could ever love us.

Or was the moment teaching me how grotesque my isolation would appear to the eyes of love, and at the same time was I learning, from the reverse side of the lesson, my own incapacity for accepting love?...

The basis of everything in the wizards' world rests upon the insight "All this is myself." Therefore, in accepting the world as it is, the wizard views everything in the light of self-acceptance, which is the light of love.

Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.

Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace.

We are a welcoming state. Our people are welcoming.

Am I a Republican? Yes. Am I a Democrat? Yes. Am I a conservative? Yes. Am I a liberal? Yes.

Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

What is to be, will be, said Mrs. Rachel gloomily, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.

He began to wish that somehow things could have been rounded off a little better. Of course he knew death was no respecter. People just dropped when they dropped, whether they had rounded things off or not.

It was very hard to rant while accepting a cup of tea.