"Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy."
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"When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral."
"One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike."
"We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity."
"Think your own way through things, accept what is true for you, discard the rest."
"I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that and I am open enough to say it."
"When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future."
"People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them."
"I think to love bravely is the best and accept - as much as one can bear."
"It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept."
"To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead."
"Works of love are always to accept and respect others."
"I open my arms wide and declare with love that I deserve and accept all good!"
"China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China."
"If there were really serious consequences if I did not accept, then of course I would do whatever was necessary. But in general I really prefer some freedom."
"By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at all. You still can respond when action is needed, but you can be free, internally, of events."
"Surrendering only refers to this moment, whatever "is" at this moment - to accept unconditionally and fully whatever arises at this moment."
"I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city."
"it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be"
"Break a pact. Accept forgiveness. Make a bet."