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“They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.” Yann Martel, Life of Pi
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.” Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“in everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That's how we survive.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“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
“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
“do try, to be more cheerful and take life as you find it.” L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
“it’s best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“I am not rebelling against my God; I simply ‘don't accept His world.’” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“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

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