Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.
One can develop new capacities and strengths with which to meet the natural vicissitudes of living; that one may gain a sense of inner peace through greater self-acceptance, through a more realistic perspective on one's relationships and experiences.
We should clearly understand that only the voluntary and conscientious acceptance by a people of its guilt can ensure the healing of a nation. Unremitting reproaches from outside are counterproductive.
A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. . . . Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.
When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect.
Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.
When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.
These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.
. . . nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.
the female view that one strengthens oneself by strengthening others is finding greater acceptance, and female values of inclusion and connection are emerging as valuable leadership qualities.
Humility is the conscious awareness and acceptance of eternity as your body.
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.
To win men to acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord is the only reason Christians are left in this world.