#accept

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. ↗

— Sophocles

#any #better #friend #how #kindness

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#against #allow #because #bit #commend

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#am #areas #based #difference #exactly

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself. ↗

— Max Frisch

#harder #nothing #oneself #than

We will not accept in our country even a single soldier who will attack Muslims or Arabs. ↗

— Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

#arabs #attack #country #even #muslims

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#being #first #opposed #passes #ridiculed

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in. ↗

— Nancy Sinatra

#been #fame #going #hall #i

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#build #commitment #culture #gift #learn

Repentance is accepted remorse. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#remorse #repentance

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children? ↗

— Steve Martin

#children #default #find #i #instruments