Accept Quotes

Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

I regard them as earth’s heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.

A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.

Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.