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  • It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the child inside us. We often fear that people won't take us seriously, or that they won't think us qualified enough. For the sake of being accepted, we can forget our source and put on one of the rigid masks of professionalism or conformity that society is continually offering us. The childlike part of us is the part that, like the Fool, simply does and says, without needing to qualify himself or strut his credentials.

    Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.50, Penguin
  • The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

  • To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

    "Smashing Pumpkins". Book by Jim Stapleton, 1996.
  • I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

    Wish   Care   Accepted  
    "Terry Bradshaw bares all in 'Failure to Launch'". www.today.com. March 9, 2006.
  • In reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being accepted into the French nobility four centuries ago, though at least an aristocratic age was franker, and therefore kinder, about the odds. It did not relentlessly play up the possibilities open to all, and so, in turn, did not cruelly equate an ordinary life with a failed one.

    Reality   Odds   Play  
    "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.
  • When I was getting close to being accepted for pilot training, I was allowed to get in a jet airplane. I sat there looking at all those switches and dials and I got the distinct feeling that I was sitting in the nose of bomb. I realized my fantasies of flying and fighting were just that - fantasies.

    "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.
  • Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

    Life   Change   Spiritual  
  • I remember very clearly when I found my first soulmate, it was actually in my late 20s, that wonderful feeling of being accepted by people.

  • The more I risk being rejected, the better my chances are of being accepted.

  • I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.

  • Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.

    Gay   Long   Matter  
  • This is the problem we have with many Muslim leaders: They claim to differentiate between domestic and foreign issues and they are obsessed with being accepted, at sitting at the table of power in order to talk (or rather to listen) and to be tolerated. This is the starting point of our weakness. It is in our minds because we do not realize we are part of the system.

    Order   Issues   Leader  
    "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.
  • Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

  • If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all different areas, whether it's flying an airplane or driving a race car.

    Airplane   Men   Thinking  
  • What do you think it is that drives people to want far more than they could ever use or need? I frankly think it's insecurity. How do we let the world know that the trappings of this life are not the things that are ultimately important for being accepted?

    "Mister Rogers' Money Tips" by Dayana Yochim, www.fool.com. January 20, 2006.
  • I think that a lot of artists have succeeded in making what I might call "curator's art." Everybody's being accepted, and I always want to say, "Really? That's what you've come for? To make art that looks a lot like somebody else's art?" If I am thinking of somebody else's art in front of your art, that's a problem.

    Art   Thinking   Problem  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I began to feel that my greatest sense of success would raise the level of masses of people, rather than the individual being accepted by the Establishment. So, this kind of personal thinking, combined with, say, even the little bit more radical thinking - because at one time the pacifist movement was a very radical concept.

    Source: www.crmvet.org
  • Being accepted by the world is the worst thing that can happen to the Church.

    Church   World   Accepted  
  • Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things.

    Alfie Kohn (2011). “Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling”, p.109, Beacon Press
  • The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

    Nature   Rain   Struggle  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1906). “Longfellow Day by Day”
  • I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's difficult even to describe it. Maybe it's the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell. It's ridiculous, but that's the way it is. That's why you don't ask-you act. As you've said many times, you have to take risks.

    Thinking   Risk   Way  
  • When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

  • Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

  • The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating. She has come with a buket. He sent her back with a spring of living water. She had come as a reject. He sent her back being accepted by God Himself. She came wounded. He sent her back whole. She came laden with questions. He sent her back as a source for answers. She came living a life of quiet desperation. She ran back overflowing with hope. The disciples missed it all. It was lunchtime for them.

    Spring   Real   Water  
  • You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.

  • I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

    Love   Reason   Accepted  
    Erich Segal (1970). “Love Story”
  • Be as honest with yourself as you possibly can. And it's not going to work for everybody, and I know you're going to be afraid of that, but please don't worry about being accepted by everybody. The people who like you and want to be around you, that's what matters, and that's what's healthiest for yourself.

    Worry   People   Honest  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely.

    Gay   Men   Thinking  
  • The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.

    May   Helping   Accepted  
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