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Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Renewing the mind is a little like refinishing furniture. It is a two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing it with the new. The old is the lies you have learned to tell or were taught by those around you; it is the attitudes and ideas that have become a part of your thinking but do not reflect reality. The new is the truth. To renew your mind is to involve yourself in the process of allowing God to bring to the surface the lies you have mistakenly accepted and replace them with truth. To the degree that you do this, your behavior will be transformed.

When love is not accepted move on; when love is not appreciated walk away; hopefully time will teach what real, true love is.

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.

You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Be as honest with yourself as you possibly can. And it’s not going to work for everybody, and I know you’re going to be afraid of that, but please don’t worry about being accepted by everybody. The people who like you and want to be around you, that’s what matters, and that’s what’s healthiest for yourself.

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability – like the boy on the seashore – to fathom the entire ocean in all its depths. He therefore believed that there were not only many things in heaven beyond his philosophy, but plenty on earth as well, and he made it his business to understand for himself what the majority of intelligent men of his time accepted without dispute (to them it was as natural as common sense) – the traditional account of the creation.

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone… Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.

People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.

There’s nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We’re completely new to our parents. We’re not something they can ever understand. And it’s not as if we are ever going to be accepted. We’re accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I’m sure that’s not any different for anyone else.

We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate. In addition, we must be capable of stating problems and proposing solutions clearly and succinctly, without distortion of meaning or misunderstanding, even when these solutions are radically opposed to accepted norms.

The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.

If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment’s hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.

Poetry’s magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

I didn’t have a girlfriend until I was 29, and I thought it was because I’m in a wheelchair. And I realized that it’s not that, it’s because I listened to what the dismissive part of society was telling me and accepted it as truth. There was nothing that was keeping me from dating or falling in love other than the fact that I was scared of being rejected. And everybody has that fear. That’s a universal thing.

It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.

I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Why in God’s name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn’t get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

There’s enough evidence that variation in sexual orientation is more a function of genes than of environment and for that reason alone, it should be accepted as but another example of human variability.

The only thing that keeps you from deserving, or loving yourself, or whatever, is someone else’s belief or opinion that you have accepted as truth.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said – namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the fence. Yet, I’ve managed to develop relations between Israel and the United States even though President Bush never supported settlements.