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"An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart."
"I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word."
"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."
"The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed."
"If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts."
"because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith."
"A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally."
"I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others."
"Healing means accepting all parts of ourselves, not just the parts we like, but all of us."
"Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance."
"Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace."
"I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don't know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it."
"You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate."
"There's something very full in knowing that your partner accepts you as is."
"I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there."
"Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful"
"When we accept the fact that we can't do everything, we are more willing to ask for and accept help when we do anything."
"The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping."
"What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure."
"You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall."
