Quotes about acceptance page 7
“…it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.”
Franz Kafka book The Trial
'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.In the Cathedral
Source: The Trial (1920), Chapter 9
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Random Thoughts http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell101705.asp, Oct. 17, 2005 <br class="br">2000s
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.”
Joseph Heller (1923–1999) American author
Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
Source: The Hob's Bargain
“Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.”
Dan Brown book Digital Fortress
Source: Digital Fortress
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Source: In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays
Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor
"Confessions of an unromantic man," Redbook magazine, Vol. 176, Iss. 4, (Feb 1991): 62.
Sherry Argov (1977) American writer
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
Mark Rothko (1903–1970) American painter
Source: after 1970, posthumous, Abstract Expressionism, Creators and Critics', 1990, p. 167
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“Wisdom… is knowing what you have to accept.”
Wallace Stegner book Angle of Repose
Source: Angle of Repose
“We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
“Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“Sh! t. F_ck sh! t.'….
'Sh! t f_ck would have also been accepted.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Strikes
“To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.”
Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi
Paris From My Window (1944)
“But she never just accepted me for the way I was.”
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Sherry Argov (1977) American writer
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
David Eddings (1931–2009) American novelist
Source: The Seeress of Kell
“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer
Source: Royal Blood
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Remarks at "Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland (18 February 1958) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx; Box 899, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre-Presidential Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library <br class="br">Pre-1960
“For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Composition as Explanation (1926)
Context: For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.
Context: No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.
“Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Obituary for physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach (Nachruf auf Ernst Mach), Physikalische Zeitschrift 17 (1916), p. 101
1910s
Context: How does it happen that a properly endowed natural scientist comes to concern himself with epistemology? Is there not some more valuable work to be done in his specialty? That's what I hear many of my colleagues ask, and I sense it from many more. But I cannot share this sentiment. When I think about the ablest students whom I have encountered in my teaching — that is, those who distinguish themselves by their independence of judgment and not just their quick-wittedness — I can affirm that they had a vigorous interest in epistemology. They happily began discussions about the goals and methods of science, and they showed unequivocally, through tenacious defense of their views, that the subject seemed important to them.
Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens. [Begriffe, welche sich bei der Ordnung der Dinge als nützlich erwiesen haben, erlangen über uns leicht eine solche Autorität, dass wir ihres irdischen Ursprungs vergessen und sie als unabänderliche Gegebenheiten hinnehmen. ] Thus they might come to be stamped as "necessities of thought," "a priori givens," etc. The path of scientific progress is often made impassable for a long time by such errors. [Der Weg des wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts wird durch solche Irrtümer oft für längere Zeit ungangbar gemacht. ] Therefore it is by no means an idle game if we become practiced in analysing long-held commonplace concepts and showing the circumstances on which their justification and usefulness depend, and how they have grown up, individually, out of the givens of experience. Thus their excessive authority will be broken. They will be removed if they cannot be properly legitimated, corrected if their correlation with given things be far too superfluous, or replaced if a new system can be established that we prefer for whatever reason.
“How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)”
Stephen Levine (1937–2016) American poet and author
Source: A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: The Witch Of Portobello
“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
“Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.”
Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer
Source: The Walk
“…one should accept the truth from whatever source it proceeds.”
Maimónides (1138–1204) rabbi, physician, philosopher
Foreword to The Eight Chapters Of Maimonides On Ethics, translated by Joseph I. Gorfinkle, Ph.D. Columbia University Press, New York (1912). Page 35-36. https://archive.org/details/eightchaptersofm00maim
Variant: "Accept the truth from whatever source it comes." Introduction to the Shemonah Peraqim, as quoted in Truth and Compassion: Essays on Judaism and Religion in Memory of Rabbi Dr. Solomon Frank (1983) Edited by Howard Joseph, Jack Nathan Lightstone, and Michael D. Oppenheim, p. 168
Variant: You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Paul Bowles book The Sheltering Sky
Source: The Sheltering Sky
“Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.”
Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto
Source: Naruto: Die Schriften des Tô
“it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.”
Joseph Delaney (1945) British writer
Source: Curse of the Bane
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956 (1995) and in a letter to Don Allen (1958); published in Heaven & Other Poems (1977)
Variant: Accept loss forever
Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
Victoria Moran (1950) American writer
Source: Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit