Gracious Acceptance Quotes

#1. Remember that the sudden decision to stop fighting, and just go with the flow, can be incredibly releasing. Resistance is just so draining. There is a beauty to gracious acceptance, an energy that leads to peace.

Nikki Gemmell

#2. Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving ... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.

Alexander McCall Smith

#3. This is not his job, I thought, it's his passion.

Howard Schultz

#4. Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Wallace Stevens

#5. If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.

Peter MacKay

#6. In the end, all I want is to be with him. It's the only way my life feels complete.

Alyson Noel

#7. If you're predisposed to get fat and want to be as lean as you can be without compromising your health, you have to restrict carbohydrates and so keep your blood sugar and insulin levels low.

Gary Taubes

#8. The ideal holiday for the truly active man is one doing nothing in beautiful surroundings ... and the ideal exercise for this best form of leisure is the old, natural, spontaneous movement of the body
the walk.

Salvador De Madariaga

#9. To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.

David McCullough

#10. What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

Boris Pasternak

#11. Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

Bernard Williams