Acceptions Quotes & Sayings

Make the present moment your friend rather than your enemy. Because many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment. — Dan Harris

This may be the most valuable and the most challenging thing we can learn from Calvin's ecclesiology today: that the church is not something that we form of our own accord. It is not a product of our reaching out to God, but a gift of God reaching out to us.107 — Michael S. Horton

I wish I worried about my uncle's opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I'd settle for knowing what her voice sounded like." I put a hand on her shoulder. "Trite but true - you don't know what you have until it's gone. People change. The world changes. And sooner or later you lose people you care about. If you don't mind some advice from someone who doesn't know much about families, I can tell you this: Don't take yours for granted. It might feel like all of them will always be there. But they won't. — Jim Butcher

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious. — Norm MacDonald

Forgiveness is far easier to grant than to grasp onto the hatred and bitterness — Nicole Bonney

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. — Anzia Yezierska

Most of our tension with others are because they show the reality of us and we can't accept it. People are best mirror. — Ali Rezavand Zayeri

If you are talented, you can really do anything. And if your heart is at the right place and you have the passion for it, you can go for it and do it. — Heidi Klum

Isn't the past what people remember- who did what, how and why? And what the people remember, isn't that mostly what they've already chosen to believe? — Amy Tan

Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer this crazy gladiatorial throwback to ancient Rome. It's even in our language: If you want to get serious and violent, what do you do? You "take the gloves off." Bare-fisted is supposedly a much more dangerous way to hit someone. But we've got it completely backward. The glove is a weapon. It massively accentuates the ability of the fist to do harm. — Jonathan Gottschall

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed. — Thomas Carlyle

Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily. — Thomas Browne

When in doubt, call for back-up. — Maya Banks

I imagine watching Gale volunteering to save Rory in the reaping, having him torn from my life, becoming some strange girl's lover to stay alive, and then coming home with her. Living next to her. Promising to marry her. The — Suzanne Collins