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“To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility -- these are marks of maturity and graciousness.”
William Arthur Ward
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”
Peace Pilgrim
“It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to unlearn”
Isaac Asimov
“Getting a dog is like getting married. It teaches you to be less self-centered, to accept sudden, surprising outbursts of affection, and not to be upset by a few scratches on your car.”
Will Stanton
“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death”
Miyamoto Musashi
“Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.”
Wayne Dyer
“If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance”
Orville Wright
“Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.”
Joan Chittister