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If you dont accept your reality you will not have the opportunity to succeed in life

Life

Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

Vanilla Ice

We don't really know anything. Those who accept this are more likely to learn something.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

The thing about animals is that they don't judge you. They accept you the way you are.

Wendy O. Williams

My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions.

Zadie Smith

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

Alain Resnais

I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.

Lukas Foss

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

Eve Ensler

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Carly Simon

A community is only being created when its members accept that they are not going to achieve great things, that they are not going to be heroes, but simply live each day with new hope, like children, in wonderment as the sun rises and in thanksgiving...

Community And Growth

Acceptance. We want someone to look at us, and really see us—our physical flaws, our personality quirks, our insecurities. And we want them to be okay with every square inch of who we are. We’re always afraid we might be too needy or too much wor...

Cross Your Heart

These words [of Romans 12:1-2] are overflowingly rich in consolation; for just then when afflictions come over us, we should be of good courage, because that is the good will of God. Therefore we should be greatly pleased when things happen to us whi...

Commentary on Romans

He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but no he saw also that by reason of it he had acquired that power of introspection which had given him so much delight. Without it he would neve...

Of Human Bondage

I know, now, without a doubt that the true source of happiness, self-worth, and authentic beauty doesn't come from the outside. Women are constantly being persuaded to want something unachievable, to look younger or thinner and above all to fit in be...

Heaven Is Here: An Incredible Story of Hope, Triumph, and Everyday Joy

Betterment is perpetual labor. The world is chaotic, disorganized, and vexing, and medicine is nowhere spared that reality. To complicate matters, we in medicine are also only human ourselves. We are distractible, weak, and given to our own concerns....

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, ...

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and o...

No Man Is an Island

I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one must have a whole beauty with man living in relation to it to have a r...

Personal Geography: Almost an Autobiography

In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in the midst of a fight, a bull can find his own particular area of safety in the arena. There he can reclaim his strength and power. ...

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I wanted-I'd have to depend on the whole world. Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting and it's precious to you. Do you kn...

Ayn Rand

Why do we not accept ESP as a psychological fact? Rhine has offered enough evidence to have convinced us on almost any other issue... Personally, I do not accept ESP for a moment, because it does not make sense. My external criteria, both of physics ...

Life