What happens when we’re willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad – but without the stress of futile avoidance. Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes parts of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined.
While handling social media pages, my father accepted every friend suggestion that popped up on the screen. He’s shared some random videos and commented on people’s posts. I told him it’s silly paa ‘ and he laughed. Maybe on Father’s Day, I’ll teach him to order his favorite food on an app.
Anyone who has not accepted Jesus, I want to be your brothers and sisters, too.
Today’s practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday’s theory.
Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.
What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing, and there is the chance nature has prepared yet another surprise for us.
I always accepted the libertarian position of minimum regulation in the sale and use of firearms because I placed guns under the beneficial rubric of minimal restrictions on individuals.
Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.
Trans women should be accepted and celebrated, whether they look a little bit more on the masculine side of the spectrum or they’re the femme of all fems.
I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their shows in San Francisco and some in L.A. That was as close as I got to being a groupie.
Everyone in the world knows ‘Spider-Man.’ And to be accepted into such a large franchise was overwhelming.
The year I got into The Actors Studio, Steve McQueen and I were the only two accepted that whole year.
Immigrant communities have been genuinely accepted in London.
In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.
The Keynesian idea is once again accepted that fiscal policy and deficit spending has a major role to play in guiding a market economy. I wish Friedman were still alive so he could witness how his extremism led to the defeat of his own ideas.
I’m delighted to have been accepted into the U.S.A. with my fishing program after its success in Australia and throughout the U.K., Europe, and Asia.
It’s my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.
I was seventeen when I moved to New York. I was nineteen when I joined the main company. I was going through a lot. Just becoming an adult and just wanting to fit in, be accepted, and be in common with the other dancers.
Drag breaks the fourth wall, which is why it’s never been quite accepted, because nobody wants to be told that they are really a caricature of themself and to not take yourself too seriously.
I needed our fans to know they’re loved and accepted, and fear isn’t the way to go.
My parents didn’t know anything about collegiate scholarships, so they had accepted the national team training stipend, the monthly stipend that I received after making the national team, so I was ineligible for NCAA eligibility anyway.
Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted.
When people come to my gigs, they feel accepted as they are and they feel part of this family.
One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn’t care.
There’s no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.
I’m very proud this show has been accepted for this length of time.
I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.
Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.
Haven’t we put off problems without clarifying Japan’s will to protect the lives and assets of its people and territory with its own hands, and merely accepted the benefits of economic prosperity?
The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth mentioning. Let me be the skunk at this political garden party and say this stinks. Representative government was not designed to work this way by the Founding Fathers.
It’s very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn’t developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists.
I guess the British audience accepted us for being refreshing and interesting.
I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.
I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you’re not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
But I think you have to accept – as I have accepted – that the demands of TV are different than the demand of book writing.
I wasn’t accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, ‘I’ll give this one more shot… and if that doesn’t work, I won’t bang my head against this painful brick wall.’
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
My grandparents would never admit to being Tasmanian, but I think it’s really great and funny. But I guess, in the past, Tasmanians just weren’t quite accepted. You had that lazy reference to them being felons.
I think falling in love with an older woman is not abnormal. It happens a lot in our society, but it’s just that it is not accepted with open arms.
Wake Forest came knocking on the door, and I accepted that offer. It changed my life completely.
It’s possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don’t have to be a thug to get love from black people.
The octogenarians who have pictures of Hillary Clinton under their toilet-bowl covers – they’ve completely accepted me.
I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.
Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!
In certain places around the world, street art is widely accepted and it is part of the urban environment.
My sister was born a couple years after I was, and I realized that I wasn’t getting enough attention, as much attention as I used to before she showed up, and then I learned pretty early on that if I could do a silly dance or make grown-ups laugh, then the attention would come back to me, and I would be accepted.
It would be a privilege to be accepted by the Glazer family in Tampa.
Sexuality didn’t come into it when I was bullied, but for so many years, being LGBTQ was one of the biggest things you would be bullied for at school. Hopefully, as time goes on, it will be a completely accepted thing that people won’t have to think about.
It has always been accepted, even in pronouncements by the Supreme Court that the Court and its judgements can be subjected to strong, even trenchant criticism. Is the same yardstick not available for comments on the use or abuse of the Court’s powers of contempt?
I think, as a gay man in society, we are not accepted yet… let alone a gay man with a kid.
When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That’s what’s happening with me.
I applied to only one college – the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania – and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.
‘Hispanic’ is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. ‘Latino’ is the word we have always used for ourselves.
My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished.
I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
To be recognized and accepted by my musical peers is truly an honor.
One may say that in a state of science where fundamental concepts have to be changed, tradition is both the condition for progress and a hindrance. Hence, it usually takes a long time before the new concepts are generally accepted.
Stereotypical and hurtful tropes about Jews are widely accepted in the African American community.
It’s a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside.
