#acceptance

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#self-acceptance #friendship

Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #motivational #purpose #strengths

It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else. We can enjoy every moment of movement, as long as where we are is as good as where we'd like to be. That's not to say that you need to be satisfied forever with where you are today. But you need to honor what you've accomplished, rather than thinking of what's left to be done (p. 159). ↗

— John Bingham

#contentment #inspiration #joy-in-journey #running #inspirational

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#also #care #down #first #head

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#community #every #feeds #i #i think

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#amount #because #distributed #exist #facebook

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance. ↗

— Max von Laue

#complete #did #initially #major #meet

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance. ↗

— Barry Mann

#going #more #rejection #than #you

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#angeles #attachment #because #being #change

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance. ↗

— Robert Plant

#apologizing #financial #great #having #i