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Acceptance quotes

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“no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.” Alice Walker, “In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens” - 1983

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, 'So what.'” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“Because he believes in himself, he doesn't try to convince others. Because he is content with himself, he doesn't need others' approval. Because he accepts himself, the whole world accepts him.” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.” Terry Pratchett, “Guards! Guards!” - 1989

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” - 2000

“It’s not that I don’t accept God, you must understand, it’s the world created by Him I don’t and cannot accept.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“it’s best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Invisible Monsters” - 1999

“Whether it's right or wrong, I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.” Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore” - 2002

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.” Fernando Pessoa, “The Book of Disquiet” - 1982

“it's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.” Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” - 1957

“I am not rebelling against my God; I simply ‘don't accept His world.’” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” - 2007

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Kafka on the Shore (1)
Invisible Monsters (1)
Veronika Decides to Die (1)
Atlas Shrugged (1)
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (1)
The Book of Disquiet (1)