#accept

The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality. ↗

— Eric Liu

#after #aging #boomers #committing #community

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do. ↗

— Joe Manchin

#best #mediocrity #politician

With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten? ↗

— Marcello Mastroianni

#argue #because #besides #course #defects

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#self-acceptance #inspirational

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive. ↗

— Ingrid Newkirk

#being #human #inclusive #makes #more

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. ↗

— Hypatia

#after #believes #child #fables #fantasies

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. ↗

— Hypatia

#dogmatic #fallacious #final #formal #must

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#achieved #achievements #against #back #backdrop

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#self-confidence #experience

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#only #sainthood #saints