Everyone has limits. Not everyone accepts them.
The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.
If you would have peace, genuine peace, you must accept all the aspects of your personality and learn to be comfortable with them.
There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.
I open my arms wide and declare with love that I deserve and accept all good!
I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.
You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.
Thousands of children are killed by handguns in the United States each year. What is that about? What are we doing? We accept that? And we accept the presence of these weapons that are in silos and on submarines and airplanes? If any madman gets hold of them - and certainly there are madmen out there who will figure out how to get hold of them, they always have - what are we even making such things for?
Don't condemn yourself - that only increases the hold of impurity. Accept your limitations but know that you're working towards changing them.
I accept all awards. I like them.
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.
It takes great generosity to accept generosity.
Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.
That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.
When I was younger, I was really anti-Hollywood. Now I'm more accepting of it because I'm less of a snob.
Patience means accepting that which cannot be changed and facing it with courage, grace, and faith. It means being “willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon [us], even as a child doth submit to his father. ” Ultimately, patience means being “firm and steadfast, and immovable in keeping the commandments of the Lord” every hour of every day, even when it is hard to do so. In the words of John the Revelator, “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and … faith [in] Jesus.
When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.
Accept and acknowledge your own brilliance. Stop waiting for others to tell you how great you are! Believe it for yourself and about yourself.
You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.