"Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment"

Unknown, Source on Acceptance
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"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."

Frost, Robert on Acceptance
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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Absurdity
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"Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it."

Havel, Vaclav on Absurdity
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"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."

Byron, Lord on Absurdity
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"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Absurdity
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Absurdity
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"Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season."

Frost, Robert on Acceptance
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"Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

Miller, Henry on Acceptance
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"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."

Moustakas, Clark on Acceptance
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"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."

Rougamont, Denis De on Acceptance
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"Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on Acceptance
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"We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are."

Kempis, Thomas on Temptation
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"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."

West, Mae on Temptation
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"I can resist everything except temptation."

Wilde, Oscar on Temptation
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"Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to."

Wilde, Oscar on Temptation
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"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."

Lincoln, Abraham on Prohibition
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"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Pursuit
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"We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass."

Johnson, Samuel on Temptation
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"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on Temptation
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"Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them."

Bunyan, John on Temptation
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"When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on Absence
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"Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood."

Ashley, Elizabeth on Absence
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"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

Fuller, Thomas on Absence
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"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Absence
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"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright."

Benjamin, Walter on Awareness
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"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

Miller, Henry on Awareness
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"The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have."

Peale, Norman Vincent on Detachment
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"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Dissatisfaction
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"A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings."

Marquis, Don on Dissatisfaction
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"The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression."

Boone, Allen J. on Rapport
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"Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment."

Cotton, Nathaniel on Repetition
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"The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time."

Tyler, Willie on Repetition
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"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost."

Foucault, Michel on Repression
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"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."

Mill, John Stuart on Repression
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"Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you."

Adams, Joey on Temptation
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"Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances."

Battista, Orlando A. on Temptation
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"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."

Bradley, Francis H. on Temptation
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"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on Absence
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