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“The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it. If you can't top it, laugh at it. If you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.”
J. Russell Lynes
“By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died”
Hunter S. Thompson
“I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.”
Johnny Depp
“The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.”
Warren G. Bennis
“You don't have to accept the invitation to get angry. Instead, practice forgiveness, empathy and encouragement.”
Dan Fallon
“Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.”
Arthur Gordon
“The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission”
George MacDonald
“Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection”
John Powell
“I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight...I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
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