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Acceptance Quotes
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If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchant ments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength. (Quote by - Rachel Carson)
Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely. (Quote by - Hillary Rodham Clinton)
To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections. (Quote by - Sandra Bierig)
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. (Quote by - Edwin H. Chapin)
It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world. (Quote by - Elizabeth Blackwell)
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. (Quote by - Albert Einstein.)
Change occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she is not. (Quote by - Ruth P. Freedman)
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I am what I am, so take me as I am!. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. (Quote by - Lionel Trilling)
Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons. (Quote by - Jessica Lange)
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. (Quote by - Tallulah Bankhead)
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self- activity. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)