#accepting

I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too. ↗

— Stephanie Nielson

#blogging #change #hope #life #time

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education. ↗

— Buzz Aldrin

#choices #comfort #education #health #immediate

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead. ↗

— Bette Davis

#challenges #dead #doing #key #life

We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#celebrating #cultural #cultural diversity #diversity #increasingly

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. ↗

— George Eliot

#belief #consists #denying #soul #them

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#before #even #good #had #less

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#affairs #because #beginning #during #foreign

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#advance #civilization #merely #nasty #nicer

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#accepting #away #comes #complexes #contrary

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#average #average man #conformist #cow #disasters