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"You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else."
"It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!"
"Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given."
"To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder"
"Fashion can give you confidence. And things have definitely changed in the industry, mostly for the positive. We're more accepting now. For me, someone like Ashley Graham, who loves her body and is always talking about it, is inspiring."
"[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings."
"The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them."
"Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either."
"If you've got the chops, people these days are more accepting of you."
"Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure."
"You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval."
"Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other, and have the courage to accept each other as we are. Do not be surprised or become preoccupied at each other's failures - rather, see and find in each other the good, for each one of us is created in the image of God."
"Loving others is easy when you love and accept yourself."
"I accept myself unconditionally right now"
"There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does...and that someone is me"
"genius accepts genius unconditionally"
"Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you."
"The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari."
"I refuse to accept anything less than 100% of what I can achieve."
"If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope."
